Paintings

  • Holding what remains

    Artwork Description: A gesture settles into stillness. What is held is fragile, partial, already slipping just beyond attention. The figure remains between looking and letting go, where meaning forms without arriving. Bent toward a small wildflower, it withdraws from turbulence into near-erasure. The surface refuses stability, drifting between atmosphere and abrasion, as perception loosens its…

  • The distance between us

    Artwork Description: A barrier defines the encounter, allowing presence while withholding contact. The figures occupy a space where proximity intensifies separation, and the surface between them becomes both conduit and refusal. The moment remains unresolved. Rain, reflection, and fractured light destabilize narrative certainty, transforming the scene into a psychological landscape shaped by vulnerability, isolation, and…

  • Oltre

    Additional Artwork Images: Artwork Description: “Oltre” è il punto di approdo del percorso creativo che Valerio Michelucci ha condotto nella cartografia di atlanti e planisferi: una ricerca istintiva e gestuale, che scaturisce dalla distruzione in pezzi delle carte geografiche e dalla loro successiva ricomposizione, in accostamenti liberi e casuali. Nel rapporto diretto e viscerale con…

  • Halcyon Days

    Artwork Description: This artwork belongs to my series “Labyrinths” and was created using layers of paper, acrylics, pigment and charcoal on canvas. The labyrinth is a recurring theme in my work, symbolizing our struggles, our course through life. Here barren trees are depicted on a vivid blue background, with moths flying around them, to remind…

  • The Light Within

    Artwork Description: This artwork, created using layer upon layer of paper, acrylics, pigment and charcoal on canvas, presents a forest, of bare interlocking trees. This labyrinth of trees (wherein we all wander), looking like bleached bones in the moonlight, is a depiction of all the limitations imposed on us upon entering the world, of all…

  • Gold. Frost

    Artwork Description: This work belongs to the Gold series — paintings built on an ornament of golden spirals. The series turns toward a tradition in which geometry and harmony were not style, but a way of thinking. What appears accidental is not. What appears boundless has a centre — a point. And the point is…

  • Gold. The Muse.

    Artwork Description: This work belongs to the Gold series — paintings built on an ornament of golden spirals. The series explores geometry as a visual language through which humanity has repeatedly sought to understand the structure of the world. The golden spiral is not an invention. It is a structure discovered again and again: in…

  • Isabel

    Artwork Description: Isabel rappresenta la giovinezza, il suo sguardo è rivolto verso il futuro, pieno di speranza e del desiderio di realizzare i suoi sogni. Width: 40 Height: 60 Artwork year of completion: 2026