Valerio Berruti, Beyond Childhood
Link to the Italian version on Artribune Before The Carousel sets off for New York, a visit to Valerio Berruti’s
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Valerio Berruti is an Italian contemporary artist known for his frescoes, sculptures, video animations and public installations. His work is often associated with childhood, but his figures do not simply represent children. They open a space of memory, projection, silence and emotional suspension.
Valerio Berruti uses childhood as a threshold rather than a subject. His children rarely smile, rarely act and rarely explain themselves. They seem suspended between presence and absence, between innocence and unease. Through them, the viewer is invited to look less at childhood itself and more at the adults we have become.
This tag collects articles, interviews and critical readings on Valerio Berruti, from Giostra di Nina and The Carousel to his frescoes, monumental sculptures and public art projects. It also follows themes such as memory, vulnerability, emotional time, public space and the quiet power of images that resist immediate explanation.
Link to the Italian version on Artribune Before The Carousel sets off for New York, a visit to Valerio Berruti’s
Read MoreThe Weightless Intensity of the Human Soul — Valerio Berruti’s “More than Kids” at Fondazione Ferrero Last week, I immersed
Read MoreValerio Berruti: Udaka, or Drawing Before It Becomes Memory There is a moment in Valerio Berruti’s work when childhood stops
Read MoreNeo-Expressionist Intimacy in Fresco and Light Born in 1977 in Alba (Piedmont), Valerio Berruti has emerged as a distinctive voice
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