MICHEL VALENTINO

“FINALLY WE ARE LIVING NOW IN A SOCIETY THAT IS A COMBINATION OF WHAT HUXLEY FORESAW IN HIS “BRAVE NEW WORLD“ AND ORWELL IN HIS “1984“.
WE ARE CAUGHT IN A STREAM OF CONSTANT PROPAGANDA AND WE ARE UNDER TOTAL SURVEILLANCE.
THIS IS THE AGE OF MATERIALISM, CONSUMERISM AND DECADENCE.
OUR HEROES ARE IDIOTS LIKE TRASH-PRINCESS PARIS HILTON, IN THEIR SAD 15 MINUTES OF FAME. CHILDREN ARE SHOOTING OTHER CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS BEFORE THEY KILL THEMSELVES AND IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD THEY BLOW THEMSELVES UP IN THE MIDDLE OF CROWDS.
DOSEN´T THAT LOOK LIKE THE END OF A CIVILIZATION, THE SECOND FALL OF ROME?“

fineart, photography, painting, sculpture, set design, video, installation and performing arts

My goal is very simple:
To communicate the human experience at a level that human beings can recognize and relate to.
That may be a personal statement. It may be a political statement. But whatever it is, it all comes from the same point of reference:
the experiences we share as people of this planet.

The central theme in my works is the telematic
society. I deal with the key components of a society driven and controlled by politics, war, entertainment, fashion and computer technologies.

I work as a fine artist, photographer, set designer, painter, sculptor, video, installation and performance artist in New York, Berlin and Prague.