Meli Valdés Sozzani

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Valdés and the second or maternal family name is Sozzani.
Meli Valdés Sozzani
Meli Valdés Sozzani
Meli Valdés Sozzani
Born1977 (1977) (age 47)
La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
OccupationArgentine painter

Meli Valdés Sozzani (La Plata, 1977) is an Argentine artist.

Biography

María Amelia Valdés Sozzani was born in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, in 1977.

She starts painting at an early age making her first solo exhibition in 1996. Her early works are influenced by surrealism, although of a very personal nature,[1] already evidencing an interest in the symbolic, rather than dreamlike, content of images. These concepts will be characteristic of her future work.

In 1998 a series of her paintings is exhibited in Artexpo New York City, at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York (Art BusinessNews Show Preview, Feb. 1998, ISSN 0273-5652). On that occasion she receives the Artist Pavilion Award in recognition to the originality of her work.[2] Her works have been exhibited in her country, the United States and Italy.[3]

In 2006 in collaboration with the Argentine writer Alejandro Córdoba Sosa, makes a series of forty illustrations based on the flash fiction stories that make up the book Doscientos y un cuentos en miniatura (Two hundred and one miniature stories).[4][5]

In 2013, on the occasion of the seventh centenary of the birth of Giovanni Boccaccio made a series of paintings inspired by the Decameron.

Style

Figuration in Meli Valdés Sozzani's art is a means to explore the deeper realities behind the concrete in order to reveal the subtle frame that hides behind the sensible world. Time, a constant theme in her work, results in enigmatic images of moving lyricism.[6] Her paintings are also characterized by high brightness and chromatic richness.[7]

References

  1. ^ Jorge Héctor Paladini "MELI VALDES Y EL DIFÍCIL TERRITORIO DE LA REALIDAD Y EL SUEÑO" Diario Hoy, Sección Espectáculos, La Plata, 9 de julio de 1998. "(...)una atractiva muestra de esta artista, adscripta a un surrealismo de muy personal perfil (...)"
  2. ^ "Distinción para una artista", Diario La Nación de la Plata, suplemento de Cultura, 26 de abril de 1998.
  3. ^ "Con los colores de la imaginación", por Marina Calles, Diario La Nación de La Plata, domingo 7 de diciembre de 1997
  4. ^ Doscientos y un cuentos en miniatura, (De los Cuatro Vientos Ed.,2007, ISBN 978-987-564-685-8)
  5. ^ Ulises Delle Ville. "El Mundo de Berisso". semanarioelmundo.com.ar. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
  6. ^ Jorge Héctor Paladini "MELI VALDES Y EL DIFÍCIL TERRITORIO DE LA REALIDAD Y EL SUEÑO" Diario Hoy, Sección Espectáculos, La Plata, 9 de julio de 1998. "(...)un lirismo dolorido en el que el tiempo que todo lo erosiona, trama los mensajes de la artista, que plasma figuras enigmáticas de conmovedora atracción"(...)"
  7. ^ Jorge Héctor Paladini "MELI VALDES Y EL DIFÍCIL TERRITORIO DE LA REALIDAD Y EL SUEÑO" Diario Hoy, Sección Espectáculos, La Plata, 9 de julio de 1998, "(...) con una gama de colores que discurren como una melodía(...)"