Pergola's Museum of the Golden Bronzes dedicates new rooms to Walter Valentini

The Museum of the Gilded Bronzes and the City of Pergola is dedicating new rooms to Walter Valentini, an artist who died two months ago as well as one of Pergola’s most illustrious artists. Alongside the archaeological, numismatic, and art-historical sections, the museum boasts a body of graphic works by Valentini, a leading exponent ofItalian and European lyrical abstractionism. About forty engravings dedicated to the Songs of Leopardi and Galileo Galilei, produced for the Milan-based publisher Unaluna. Also on display are the original plates on which Valentini’s hand etched metal. Now these works will find space in a dedicated section within the contemporary art rooms. The opening of the new rooms will be held on Saturday, July 30, at 10:30 a.m.

“After the publication of the new catalog and convinced of the need to build over time a section dedicated to contemporary art and the City of Pergola, within the Museum of the Gilded Bronzes,” explains Culture Councillor Ciro Mariani, “with this initiative, aimed at paying homage to the recently deceased master Walter Valentini, we have started a first path of reorganization of the museum spaces. The works of Walter Valentini were granted a transit space, within the corridor of the cloister, which was absolutely improper, probably also dictated by the lack of other rooms, where to place displays and other works of the master. It was therefore decided to reserve for Valentini the three rooms once functional to the entrance, the ticket office and bookshop and the room for meetings and screenings.”

“Walter Valentini,” he continues, "represents for Pergola one of the masters of contemporary art of absolute international interest, and this different placement of some of his works should allow the visitor and the connoisseur of the master and of contemporary art to pause and appreciate with greater rigor and awareness the works on display. I want to thank Walter Valentini’s sons - Francesco and Andrea - who have donated two more important works to the museum, which will be exhibited for the first time in Pergola, as well as a series of interviews and videos of the master. In short, the Valentini operation should restore greater clarity and exhibition fluidity to the entire museum."

The inauguration will be attended by Culture Councillor Ciro Mariani and art historian and critic, Valentini’s friend, Roberto Budassi, already a profound connoisseur of Valentini’s work, who will introduce those present to the artist’s world, between Heaven and Earth, between Cosmography and Astronomy. The general manager of Confcommercio Marche Nord, Amerigo Varotti, will also be present.

Pergola's Museum of the Golden Bronzes dedicates new rooms to Walter Valentini

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