Santa Maria Assunta, called I Gesuiti, is decentralized compared to
the fulcrum of the city and it’s not part of the classical venetian
touristic tours. Lightness, dynamism and elegance are the three
words I want to use in order to reveal this magnificent religious
space, that generally and superficially, in a positive sense, it can
be understood from the user just in one glance, because of his
extensive spaces and the conformation to a single central nave.
The heaviness of the marble materials is not so evident despite the
dimensions and the impressiveness of the building, moreover the
desaturate and refined colors are presents in all the walls of the
church, till the highest area. The marble is wisely used and
procures, at least in me, a defined sense of movement in relation
with the church. What I investigate is to identify this continue
movement, this dynamic that immediately impressed me
Jacopo Valentini lives in Modena.
He started the approach to Photography since he was really young and always did of this art a personal use. During the last phase of his academic studies he begins putting in discussion his own photographic work, strongly oriented through the territorial area. He made and continues to make Photography as an intense planning means, not only in a photographic level, but also in an architectural one.
He was born in Modena in 1990 and there he obtained the Diploma di Maturità Classica. In 2011 he applied for the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, in the Italian part of Switzerland, during these years of studies he has the possibility to conduct the internships, the first at the chilean art and architecture studio Pezo Von Ellrichshausen, the second at the Catalan architecture office OAB-Carlos Ferrater. In 2014 he started the collaboration with the magazine Domus and in the same year he obtains the Bachelor in Science of Architecture at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio; during this period he understand the importance of the camera in his life. In June 2015 he was selected in order to participate to the project Foto Factory Modena in collaboration with SkyArteHD and Fondazione di Fotografia Modena, in that occasion he has the possibility to give more identity to his images. In February 2016 he starts the Master in Photography at IUAV in Venice below the supervision of Stefano Graziani and Angela Vettese.
Jacopo Valentini collaborates with the artist-photographer Stefano Graziani and actually he is working on a project regarding the Vesuvius and his volcanic nature.
Awards Awards & Grants - Premio Francesco Fabbri per le Arti Contemporanee - Finalist 2016 - Premio di Fotografia Aldo Nascimben - Honorable Mention 2016 - Artist in Residence: Casa Fabbri, Pieve di Soligo (TV) 2016
