(March 2, 2017) Abruzzo is her mother land and the source of her art. The exhibition Footprints by young Italian artist Valentina Colella (1984) will be presented on Thursday March 9th at the Everard Read art gallery in Johannesburg, 6 Jellicoe Ave, Rosebank. The exhibition, organized with Rainbow Media, the IIC in Pretoria and Italian Foreign Ministry as collateral event within the context of the ‘Project ARP - Art Residency Project 2015-2017’ by Centro Luigi Di Sarro in Rome, is composed by three parts: the first is a 2015 video shot in Campo Imperatore; the second proposes a multi-media work in which the path from Introdacqua - small town which is part of the Most Beautiful Villages in Italy - up to a cottage overlooking the Valle Peligna is placed on the map with detection of some topical points, crucial to the locals. Each of these points is accompanied by photos with the signs of the longitude and latitude to allow you to locate places with GPS. The third and final part is the painting, composed of nine works on paper. (PO / Red)

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Valentina Colella is a concept artist that express herself using different media, including painting, drawing, installations, videos, photographs. After her studies, she undertook an in-depth study of scenarios that refer to a concept of opposition evident in the various passages from the real to digital. Inspired by nature and the land that surrounds her, Abbruzzo. Colella has exhibited her work in London, Cologne, Rome, Argentina, Taiwan. With the project Learning, Valentina is selected for the 2016/2017 ARP Art Residency Project, Cape Town, South Africa.