Valo Valentino
Valo Valentino (born as Valentino Biago Berndt) is a German-Mexican visual artist whose interdisciplinary work transcends conventional boundaries.
Currently immersed in research exploring the relationship between frequency and color wavelength, Valo aims to merge the field of music, painting and sculpture. Through a fusion of sound vibrations —ranging from sequences and chords to tracks and riffs— with vibrant hues, Valo crafts a alluring body of work that intricately weaves together art, music, cybernetics, and cultural history.
Valo (b. 1988) was born in Mexico, has graduated in Sculpture at Fine Art Academy in Stuttgart, DE, previously studying stone masonry and digital music production. He works and lives in Stuttgart, Germany.
Selection
| 2024 | The art is in the means (pure color, pure sound) (Orig.: Die Kunst steckt in den Mitteln), Adolf Hölzel Haus, Stuttgart, DE SOLO |
| 2023 | KUKAV (Kulturkasten), Animation, Installation, Tuttlingen, DE Two worlds meet Generation Ceo/Venture Women meet visual arts (Orig.: Zwei Welten begegnen sich , Generation Ceo/Venture Women treffen auf bildende Kunst), Container City, Stuttgart, DE Mineral watercolor: Artist residency in Jenesien, Hotel zum Hirschen, South Tirol at Bozen, IT Everyman’s Mask (Orig.: ‘Jedermannsmaske’), Auction at the European Stone-Festival Salzburg, AT |
| 2022 | Freezing Point, Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Neckar, DE 60×60 International Film-Collage, Museum Bread and Art, Ulm, DE On the farewell of an oddball (Orig.: Zum Abgang eines sonderlings), Projektroom Akku, Stoneheart 2022, Stuttgart, DE Hunters and Gatheres, Drawing Installation, Wunderkammer Naturalia, Artificialia, Bad Canstatt, DE The small attic (Orig.: Der kleine Dachboden), Colorful concrete, Car Park Züblin, Stuttgart, DE Synthesized Blu:z, the general bass, Artroom 34. Stuttgart, DE |
| 2020 | Eye-catcher (Orig.: Blickfang), Artstudio Kaufbeuren, DE MAVA In two or three hundred years, life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful (Orig.: In zwei oder Dreihundert Jahren wird das Leben auf der Erde unvollstellbar schön sein) with Marlon Lanziner, Space Nalon, Esslingen am Neckar, DE MAVA THE RAIN BRINGS THE COLOR with Marlon Lanziner, Werkstatthaus, Stuttgart, DE MAVA The dampness of the riverbanks (Orig.: Die Feuchte der Flussränder) with Marlon Lanziner, Bahnwärterhaus, Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Neckar, DE |
Hunter and Collector, hand-drawn stop motion (1 min) Collection Museum Bread and Art, Ulm, DE
Hotel zum Hirschen, Südtirol, IT
Braun Steine GmbH, Ulm, DE
Fischer and Collegs, Stuttgart, DE
Stereochrome
Project Statement
Stereochrome is a series of cymatic reverse glass painting. It examines the aesthetic and graphic aspect of chemical reactions under the influence of stereo waves in water.
Using a membrane and a sound generator, water and enamel pigments are made to vibrate on a glass plate until they dry out. Water serves as a universal conductor and main actor to make frequency networks visible. The amount of water, the format, volume and pitch determine the dynamics of the semantics.
Valo arranges this technique into groups of chords and poetic color spaces based on color circles by Adolf Hölzel.
The artist develops a basso continuo similar to the compositional principles of music to create duple tones, triads, chromatic and musical triads with color. The architecture of sound transforms into composition and forms that can either be seen as raw sound or as a balanced tone color.
