54. Venice Art Biennale

Nicoleta Stati

• biographical notes
• curriculum
• Cognition
• opening party

Valeria Duca

• biographical notes
• curriculum
• The world around me
• opening party

III Millennium Art Gallery’s
Art Director Advice

I am very proud to host into this prestigious Art Gallery the Pavilion of the Republic of Moldavia. Yet before the Gallery had the opportunity to exhibit works of artists of Eastern Europe, it was a great satisfaction. In this area of the European Continent, as I said in the past, they consider art as something truly serious, something useful to the research of beauty. We could say they preserve a sense of sacredness for the imagination and a sense of respect to the public. I think that slavic and russian countries sure will be among the main protagonists of the Arts Renaissance that I hope. I would like to put in evidence three aspects of this Pavilion.

1. It hosts two very young artists. One is Valeria, she is the youngest artist of this Biennale.
2. Together they exhibit works that are pure painting, oil on canvas.
3. Their painting is inspired to the most important european artistic movements from the second half of nineteenth to the early twentieth.

I am comforted by this sequence of aspects. The new generations, who dedicate to figurative art, would to declare the primacy of painting. They seriously tested themselves. This way to make contemporary art is nonconformist and countercunter. It seems to be paradoxical what I say but, from my point of view, this is the reality. This is even more true if we consider that Valeria Duca and Nicoleta Stati have declared their passion for impressionism expressionism. Their works infact are a tribute to Pissarro, Schiele, Degas, Kokoschka, Cézanne, Utrillo, Pollock; but also a tribute to our Renato Guttuso.