VALERIA VACCARO

Valeria Vaccaro was born in Turin in 1988. After attending the Artistic High School, she studied sculpture at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin. Since 2005, she has regularly exhibited in solo and group shows in Italy, France, Germany, England, and Montenegro, and has participated in contemporary art fairs. In 2022, she won the Second Prize of the VAF Foundation IX Edition, recognized by the prestigious German Foundation with the aim of promoting innovative positions in contemporary Italian art and communicating them in Germany.

Built on the contrasts between heavy and light, eternal and ephemeral, precious and ordinary, Valeria Vaccaro’s work sets us before the uncertainty of our time. Elegant work and impeccable in its realisation in which the sculpture’s material par excellence becomes symbolic of the fluid society that distinguishes us. Valeria Vaccaro is a young Turinese sculptor fascinated by fire’s purifying force and its symbolic, alchemical and primordial meaning. Fire transforms everything, even marble, the material which the artist has chosen as an expressive weapon, shaping it until it looks like wood, burnt and blackened by the flames. In all her research, both in three and two-dimensional works, she elevates simple objects to a higher level of perfection. In her works, fire intervenes not as a destructive factor, but as a creative force capable of generating transformations and shaping marble, a material that Vaccaro has always preferred.