Madame Butterfly
Lithography on Paper
31x31in
Italy
Valeria Corvino was born in Naples (1953) and was formed through the study of the astonishing artistic wealth of her hometown. Roman sculpture, the capricious baroque, the daily familiarity with the fragments of antiquity, the architectural palimpsests of her territory are her first "masters", together with a very Mediterranean passion for the secrets of anatomy and the beauty of the human body. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts, she delves into the problem of composition by working on photography, and therefore on cuts, the zoomed image, the play of light and shadow. Combining her pictorial training, her passion for sculptural volumes, the secrets of photographic framing, she manages to perfect her innate propensity towards balance and harmony.