Marta Valls - Italy

Artwork information :

8. Fire, photography, 30 x 40 cm, 2021 

Website : https://www.facebook.com/abcmarta

Biography

Marta Valls has a Fine Arts degree from Barcelona University (1988), specialising in Photography. Marta lived and worked in England from 1988-1990, where started her artist professional career. In 1990 was invited by the Fondazione Italiana per la fotografia  (Photography Italian foundation) to take part to the Biennale di Fotografia (Photography biennal) with a personal exhibition, since then, Marta has lived and worked in Turin. She is also an Art teacher in the secondary school.

Her works are in private and public collections such as : Comune di Anzio, Fondazione Camis de Fonseca, Ayuntamiento de Almansa.

Artist statment

Marta Valls usually works with mixed media using essentially photography , plus watercolours, wood, iron, paper. She plays with lights and transparencies that reveal an idea, conveying the internal and external worlds, between men soul and environment. 

Images that often focus on the women world, and perception.

She places us in front of a mind mirror, opening the world to the “possibility” she doesn't stop at Beauty  but breaks, overlays, deforms with intelligence to convey deep ideas and emotions.

AWARDS: 

 BIENNALE DELLA CREATIVITA' FEMMINILE A BRA, AWARDED WITH FIRST PRIZE OF PHOTOGRAPHY in 2016 and  2018, and honor mention in 2020

 September International Biennale Art contest Shingle22j, Anzio.  Winner of the second prize and of the Anzio honor mention (2019)

 Eleonora Heger Vita prize el concorso Aurelia Josz Milano

 L'Arte dentro la città, la città dentro l’arte FIRST PRIZE OF PHOTOGRAPHY 

 DEC. INTERNATIONAL FLORENCE CONTEST, AWARDED WITH third PRIZE OF PHOTOGRAPHY, exhibition at Palazzo vecchio, Florence

2021

   Curator of About Women   Liceo Vito Scafidi, Sangano

    may: Eroticart-group exhibition galeria Artebo , Bolonia

    June: REst Art Roma by Simultanea arte

2020

 July- Solo Exhibition “Galeria la Ronda”, Barcelona 

 July- “Across the River” group international exhibition in South Korea

 October ““About Women” curator of International exhibition: mail art project in Womens’s art Biennale, Awarded with special mention 

2019

 February- “Travel and sacred” artist residence in Rodello d’Alba

 June- “Identity” finalist for Identity contest, exhibiton at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 

 June -Group exhibition at Palazzo Zenobio, Venice

 June- “About Women” curator of International exhibition: mail art project e and international artists selection exhibition

 September Hallo Budapest! Group exhibition at galleria Varmezo;Budapest 

 September International Biennale Art contest Shingle22j, Anzio.  Winner of the second prize and of the Anzio honor mention .

 November “Ali per volare,Radici per tornare” Wings to fly , roots to come back” Exhibition at Paratissima , Turin 

2018

 marzo -BIENNALE DELLA CREATIVITA' FEMMINILE A BRA, AWARDED WITH FIRST PRIZE OF PHOTOGRAPHY 

 May-settembre Collective show “Oasi” Chiesa di Sant'Agostino, Pinerolo

 May  awarded with Eleonora Heger Vita prize all'interno del concorso Aurelia Josz Milano

 June- Exhibiton as curator “Il Tempo e l'eterno” cappella Pilotti

 sePT. -Silence- collective show in Seinajoki,Finland

 sept. PREMIO L'ARTE DENTRO LA CITTA, LA CITTA DENTRO L'ARTE CUNEO, AWARDED WITH FIRST PRIZE OF PHOTOGRAPHY 

 DEC. INTERNATIONAL FLORENCE CONTEST, AWARDED WITH third PRIZE OF PHOTOGRAPHY, exhibition at Palazzo vecchio, Florence

2017

• Feb. – Forme d'arte by Willy Darko, L'Alfiere Arte, Torino

• April- Yo soy Mujer by Katia Munoz, galleria “La Ronda” Barcelona

• April -Premio d'arte di Novara,Salone Arengo del Broletto, Novara

• Set.b-May 18- Dietro le Quinte, by EPA, Pinerolo

2016

 June-Biennale della creatività femminile (Bra) awarded with the prize of the Critics

 June- Exhibition le Gru

 November 16_January 2017- Portrait exhibition Munchen

1.1. 2014-15

 September- Palazzoto Juva, Volvera

 June- 2014-to July 2015 Mein Fukushima (Munich, Algarve and many villages in Portugal and Spain) 

 10/2014 Il gesto e la tela, Turin

o 1-2/2015 Martinarte Turin

2013

 February. group exhibition "I COLORI DELL’ANIMA” galleria Accorsi Torino

2012

 February. group exhibition "PARALLAX ART FAIR" galleria Barlow fine drawings, LONDON (EN)

 April- LIRICA MATERIA- GALLERIA EMMA INFANTE-Mostra d'Arte Contemporanea-Torino

 April- GALLERIA PUNTO ARTE-Gesto e Colore- Modena

 April- La Fenice- Certosa di Collegno- Collegno

 July- 14th of july - Barcelona showcase - Casa Batllò

 August 4-7 - PARALLAX ART FAIR" New York

 August - September - Palazzo Lomellini- Carmagnola

 Novembre- "PARATISSIMA" Torino

 SOLO EXHIBITION -Mostra Personale "Fotonica" galleria Accorsi Torin

2011 

 February, Arte e emocao,group exhibition galeria Colorida, Lisboa (portugal) 

 April: momenti - group exhibition, Galleria Paola Meliga, Turin

 April group exhibition Internazionale dell’arte 2010” , Villa Gualino, Turin 

 April Internazionale dell’arte 2010,villa gualino, Torino

 May , Segnali d’oggi , Spazio San Giorgio, Bolonia

 September group exhibition “ Istinti” Studio Iroko, Milan 

 October. group exhibition “ Arteficio” La Caos art Gallery, Venice 

 November. group exhibition “ Sensi d’autore” galleria Valfré, Turin

 November group exhibition ““ Colori in concerto” galleria Stomeo, Lecce

2010

 January Collective exhibition “Abon ri !” Elle galleria arte contemporanea Rome

 February selected artist for “Elle Arte Contemporanea Contest 2010” Rome

 Selected artist for “ On Sale ” Infantellina Contemporary, Berlin 

 March : group exhibition“Italian Photography” Infantellina Contemporary, Berlin

 Solo exhibition "Sinergy art Studio”,Rome