About

Valeria Gasparrini ( Rome, 1964), was formed thanks to a rich contribution of artistic and literary experiences: classical studies, research in ceramics, painting, fresco, engraving, drawing from life; attended the three-year course of illustration at the IED, and was trained in the graphic engraved at the Stamperia del Tevere , in Rome. Today she works as an artist, as an advertising illustrator and freelance editorial, as a teacher of drawing, visual and illustration at Quasar Design University, the Academy of Fine Arts of L'Aquila ABAQ, the American University in Rome AUR. He draws live in theatrical performances, and realizes performances with stage machines of various nature that builds and animates on stage. As an artist he has participated in personal and collective exhibitions, and passionately dedicates himself to the creation of artist’s books, combining his remarkable illustrative nature with the infinite expressive possibilities of engraving techniques.

He has exhibited in Rome, Milan, Bologna, Faenza, Venice, Paris, Luxembourg, Rothemburg. Some of his works are part of permanent exhibitions, such as the ceramic work "Rain" at the International Museum of ceramics in Faenza, the artist book "How many irreplaceable lives", exhibited at the national library of Luxembourg, and its printed version exhibited at the Casa della Memoria in Rome.

They wrote about here

Daniele Scalise, Loris Schermi, Francesca Tuscano, Michèle Wallenborn, Devin Kovach, Sarah Linford, Gianluca Tedaldi. Valeria Bertesina.

For interested people,
I am writing to offer the highest recommendation for Valeria Gasparrini who has held two engraving workshops for the Rome Center of Architecture and Culture at Woodbury University which I direct. He guided the students' works, taking them from the initial drawings to the creation of the definitive prints and their possible display in an exhibition. I find her one of the most creatively contagious and inspiring people with whom I have had the opportunity to collaborate.
Let me take the liberty of offering a few details regarding his remarkable abilities. To begin with, she is a very competent artist in her field. She is also generous in sharing her experience and does so with great enthusiasm.
In the initial phase of the projects he offers numerous approaches, both experimental and conventional, with the aim of giving birth to works of art that can then be created on slabs.
In the workshops we used zinc and copper plates, and the results were surprising. It featured field sketching exercises, complex mapping projects, and digital plate file translations. It has provided Woodbury with some of the most powerful and transformative learning experiences students have had in Rome; also in relation to what they do at home. Our students love her and she has been there for them every step of the way, teaching them techniques to achieve their creative goals.
It is a magical moment when the students complete the drawings, prepare the plates, ink them working in their studio. And then they print them. This would not have been possible for us without Valeria's expertise.
Thank you for the opportunity to offer a great recommendation for Valeria and I would be happy to discuss her merits further should you wish to contact me at my email: paulette.singey@gmail.c

Best regards
Paulette Singley
Woodbury University professor,
Director of the Rome Center for Architecture and Culture


	    			
		

	





	

		
	

	
		 
	 
	

   
		
TWO: The invisible Cities

	
		
2023
		
		
final project for the second year of the illustration course

		

	
	

	
	

		
				
		

		
			

			
		

		
			


			

			
			

				
								 
Autori:Autor:third year course in comics and illustration

				 				 
				 				 
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The invisible cities of Italo Calvino (Einaudi, Turin, 1972) is a story built according to the combinatorial methods experimented by Italo Calvino when he came into contact with the ULIPO group in Paris in 1967. It consists of nine chapters, in which Marco Polo describes to Kublai Khan, Emperor of the Tartars, fifty-five imaginary cities with women’s names that embody our most hidden desires or fears, grouping them in eleven sections: «Cities and memory»; «Cities and desire»; «Cities and signs»; «Subtle cities»; «Cities and exchanges»; «Cities and eyes»; «Cities and names»; «Cities and the dead»; «Cities and the sky»; «Cities continue»; «Hidden cities». The succession of cities and sections does not imply a sequence or a hierarchy, but builds a branched network, in which multiple narrative paths and multiple conclusions are possible. The students of the third year of the Illustration course were confronted with the imagination of this labyrinthine text, dominated by fantasy and dream, creating fifteen tables freely inspired by the cities protagonists of the stories of Marco Polo. After reading the text, each of them identified key words, through which to interpret the chosen city. The invisible cities of Calvin are symbols of reality, and as such pose questions about the meaning of urban geographies and our ways of coexistence.


Prof.ssa Maria D’ALESIO

Director of the Academy of Fine Arts of L’Aquila


 


 


CITIES

Fifteen different cities, freely inspired by the “invisible cities” of Italo Calvino.

Fifteen free interpretations; where “free” implies deepening, evocation, representation.

Fifteen different personalities and backgrounds; different regions of Italy, Spain, China.

Fifteen different stories, fifteen different rooms in which children live, study, draw and imagine their city; a multitude of desires and goals; fifteen different possible futures.

A shower of words, adjectives, objects, impressions and images that guided everyone in imagining the drawing for their own illustration.


All the boys have launched themselves far beyond the simple representation of the text; they have gone into the depth of the lexicon, they have captured and fissato on paper the suggestion of the literary passages and the adventures of the protagonists; have consciously faced a disorienting creative drift to then lead everything to the realization of an image that was evocative, personal, surprising and professional.


Valeria Gasparrini


 

    
          
        

 


		
	
	
	
	
	
			
		
	
	
	
		

		
		
Fasi di lavorazione
 
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Each student identified some guiding words, and elaborated several sketches before arriving at the final image. This is the progression of Marta Di Giacomo; her guiding words are: deformed children, hiding reality

    
      
             
      
        
          
          
        
      
    
            
                  
                
        
                        
    
        
	 
	
	 
		
	
		

		
	





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