WELCOME to KLESHALAND!

I'm interested in people, i like their stories, their thoughts, dreams, fears ... And I'm fascinated by what they wanted to be and to have and what they didn't obtain. I like to investigate in reality as much as in the subconscious but especially I love imagination: I'm sure that if you imagine something or someone for a long time, you make this "real" in some way. I immagine people and i would like them to exist, so I choose their features, aspirations, destiny. My works are not simple portraits: when I'm going to "tell a story" about somebody's life, whether real or imaginary, I want everything - past, present and future - to be seen in the same moment, as if it were a "mystical snapshot". That reminds me the oriental thought, that says time is an illusion.

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“My strength comes from my fragility”

“La mia forza nasce dalla mia fragilità”

(70x70 cm, graphite, ecocline and colored pencils on cardboard)

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Vans by Valentina Campagni, single piece, acrylic.

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"The Enchantress"

(30x30, mixed Media on cardboard)

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"My favourite lie"

(30x30, mixed media on cardboard)

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"Demi was a bully"

30x30 cm, mixed media on Schoeller cardboard

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"Cougars" (Three cougars and the Batesian mimicry")

Mixed media on Schoeller cardboard.

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"The inner dictator lost the war"

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"Father and mother"

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"Four"

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"What you didn't want"

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One of the most exciting phases of the creative process is to sketch the idea on paper. Better when you don't have a precise idea and you work in a mix of rationality and instinct. Also when you understand that you got it is a wonderful time! Una delle fasi più entusiasmanti del processo creativo è abbozzare l'idea sul foglio. Meglio quando non si ha ancora un'idea precisa e si lavora in un mix di razionalità e istinto. Anche capire di aver centrato il punto è un bellissimo momento.

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"False desires"

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"Alone"

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"A good friend of my mind"

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"The stupid thoughts"

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"At any price" (Mixed media on paper; 36x51 cm)

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"Spiky carousel" 

"La giostra a punta"