VENTURA EXIT - The Art of Valerio Ventura

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THE FIFTH ANNUAL SOUTH PASADENA ARTS BENEFIT. VALERIO VENTURA IS ONE OF THE TWENTY LOCAL ARTISTS TO SHOW AND SELL THEIR WORK TO BENEFIT KATRINA VICTIMS & THEIR FAMILIES.

Come meet the artists, make holiday purchases and enjoy a lovely afternoon in South Pasadena. Proceeds will benefit the patients at Children’s Hospital of New Orleans. All monies are handled by the National Kidney Foundation of Louisiana and are tax deductible.

South Pasadena High School students will be displaying their work. Music will be provided by the South Pasadena String Orchestra.
Honoree Dr. Matti Vehaskari Director Division of Nephrology Children’s Hospital of New Orleans Staff, Patients, and Families.

Patrons: Jeff Burke - Burke Triolo Studio, Michael Downing - Sotheby’s International Realtors, Athen Services, Lucha’s Comfort Foot Wear, Thomas R. Field Antiques.

Food Donated by: Buster’s, Firefy Bistro, Charlie’s Trio, Heirloom Bakery & Café, Mamma’s Brick Oven Pizza, Nicole’s, Shakers, The Munch Company, Trader’s Joe, Wild Thyme.

Arts Benefit curators: Dr. Helen Lieberman & Dr. Harry Lieberman.

Sunday, December 6, 2009
1pm - 4pm
1944 Milan Avenue South Pasadena CA 91030

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VALERIO VENTURA’S BOOK with a Foreword by Gay Lawrence
“ALTERED SCAPES ANIMATION ART VOL 1” IS AVAILABLE.

DON’T MISS THE CHANCE TO OWN THIS FANTASTIC BOOK,

A LIMITED 1ST EDITION HARD COVER BOOK OF ITALIAN ARTIST
VALERIO VENTURA’S VISUAL DEVELOPMENT WORK FOR FILMS.
THIS 1ST VOLUME FOCUSES ON FANTASY AND FAIRY TALES ARTWORK
CONCEIVED, DESIGNED, DRAWN AND PAINTED BY THE ARTIST.
10X13, 75 Pages of full color and stunning black & white out-of-this-world images.

The book is in English and Italian.

MICHAEL JACKSON by VALERIO VENTURA. TWO PRINTS DEDICATED TO THE MEETING BETWEEN VALERIO AND THE KING OF POP BACK IN 1997. A LIMITED SIGNED EDITION PRINTS OF ONLY 100 WILL BE MADE.

In 1993 Valerio was working with his partner (Gay Lawrence) on the feature film ”The Pagemaster” and studio head David Kirschner was giving a tour to Michael Jackson. We were involved in a project that David and Michael created and werer developing. The day Michael was visiting the studio is when Valerio had the opportunity to meet and shake hands with the king of pop.

The first drawing Valerio did is the one here, where you can see just the hair and the sunglasses. Fueled by his excitement the day after the meeting Valerio produced this forst image. The second drawing Valerio did after the scandal broke out months later and you can view that in the PRINTS section in the STORE.

The original art for one of the drawing is still available and Universal Art gallery of Venice will produce a limited edition of this beautiful prints.

TELEART "CODE 4" A NEW PRINT ON CANVAS BY VALERIO VENTURA NOW AVAILABLE ANY SIZE ONLY ON COMMISSION.

This large print entitled “Code 4” is based on a car chase happened back in January 2009. This is one of the few PRINTS Valerio will make available only on commission.

Valerio began taking pictures from the television set a few years ago. Taking pictures straight from television can be like capturing a live shot as long as it is captured mechanically and not by recording the image directly into a digital device by way of cables or wi-fi usb devices.

In this particular experiment, Valerio always uses a slightly wrong setting on the camera so the image is affected in an organic way that couldn’t be reproduced the same way twice. The artist then takes the image and works on it by hand or digitally using a pen or brush.

OBAMA TELEART.

Tuesday november fourth, two thousand eight.

This technique Valerio used to create a series of prints of digital paintings the artist did of president Barack Obama. The first image you’ll find on the blog is the image of the american flag waiving in grant park in chicago. The artists added the words from a portion of the speech that the president delivered that historic night.

Another prints is available with the image of president Obama delivering the speech and the speech in it's entirety is overlaid on the top of the whole image.

Another print, shows the same scene looking from behind the stage towards the crowd in grant park, and president Barack Obama raising his hand waiving to the people with his shadow cast in the spotlight that illuminated the stage.

Valerio did these watching tv the night that Obama was declared the winner.