No Pictures Please
Hi I'm Angelo
Welcome to my official website.
There are no images here, no gallery, and I do not display artwork online.
There is something interesting to read, it will be worth your time.
If you just want to buy something, enough to buy a work of art without seeing it first, you have found the right place. If you just want to know about the artworks and why I don't show them, skip down a little, if you would like to know a bit about me first; go to the page called Artist.
Buying
How buying an art from me usually works:
Get in contact, pay the full amount in advance, answer 1 question for me about dreams and I will make or choose the artwork I would like you to have and send it to you.
You will be pleased. (Have not had a return so far)
The cost will increase around 5% after each sale.
To own a work today is:
$95,000*
* One Artwork per buyer. Thirty day return policy.
This will need some trust. Have no doubt - the work you receive will be special and the whole process of trusting in "fate" will be worth it.
As an early buyer you will forever have trusted "collector" access to new work, including invites to: launches, private views + dinners and parties for future projects.
If you are "in" and wish to buy something, just scroll to the bottom of this page and complete 3 steps:
Thank you
To buy now, scroll to the very foot of this page:
I hope you will appreciate, I am NOT an art dealer. I make Art and sell some, to make more.
I truly value trust and support. By showing your trust you have become a part of the history of one Artwork and the greater project, the moment you receive your work and understood that, you will forever be a part of it.
This latest series has taken years to mature, and now these works needs to find the right owners - I hope that will be you.
I make large-scale conceptual works that often begin long before they are seen. Some exist physically. Some exist socially. Some operate as interventions.
They are not produced in series. They are not previewed. They are not repeated.
The first question I am asked: "Why sell Art this way?
I know it will make a real difference to have people contribute to the story. To be forever part of the lore around the works, a tapestry that forms each Artwork. It will change how you make choices and how those people who know relate to you.
If you trust yourself this much, you will get much more than a cool story about how you acquired an interesting Artwork.
Great Art works have some magic, they affect change in living things. They are worth the suspense and trouble. They demand it.
This project took a decade of constant work to skill to start and another to perfect. They leave most people standing in awe on first seeing them. I do not think you would have read this far if you did not have "a feeling" that there is more to this. Trust yourself, your feelings are everything, when we stop hearing them whisper to us, we have nothing but a sea of selling lies and jealous voices to guide us through life. Listen to your heart.
Let's be truthful for a moment: I know almost anyone with common sense would tell you they would not support this project. These are the people and the feelings, that so often hold us back from all the great things in life, the best actions, the exciting and rewarding things. But things of value always have a risk.
As humans we are programmed to doubt ourselves... and that is a terrible place for any intelligence. As it also cruelly holds us back from change.
This whole site is based on the idea that there exist people that will trust in their own judgment. Our feelings can not lie to us, we lie to them. In the past, you probably ignored your instincts and stayed pretty sensible.
Today, and you will get something of real importance.
Something that will be of real value to you and indirectly to the world. I know that to be true.
Discover your ability to know you have found something of beauty and lasting importance.
Here is something about my Art, and why you need to suport me and buy it!
About my recent works now for sale:
"Standing in front of the large imposing images, is an authentic experience. These days art is rarely if ever this affecting and this dare I say it, compelling."
Matthew Steeples - The Steeple Times. London
Technology has given us a thousand forms of irresistible instant gratification and unrelenting distraction from self-awareness. Sometimes a disruption makes us recall a promise we all make to ourselves and break immediately: To have only genuine people and good things around us that bring value and meaning. Not more expensive noise and pretty trash.
There is an absence of my Art on the internet, and this is very deliberate: This is unusual as I have been making Art since before internet Art started, I wholeheartedly welcomed the digital age and used technology with no issue... but I have some strong reasons to keep my Artwork exclusively in real-life only.
In the beginning, it was to stop people from copying my work and to maintain some exclusivity, but there was and is another more personal reason; A phone or computer screen is not the right place to first see any genuine work of Art.
I used to try to have a modest real-life exhibition every few years and show my big works the old-fashioned way: good locations, nice invitations, people come, some people like, enough to buy.
When the internet started to work, as a young Artist I saw the web as a wonderful canvas for new types of Art, but not much as a good gallery for Art with a capital A, so I did something, that was unique and a little rash: I wrote the following letter and sent it to everyone who had collected or wanted to display any of my works:
"I kindly ask that all collectors, galleries and museums that are in possession of my signed artworks NOT to EVER show, make or reproduce any digital copies or images of said works online, on their websites or on any social media, even in an effort to help expand awareness in me or my Art."
Sticking to those principles means that selling my Art is not at all easy. But I am trying.
The work I will send you took a decade to craft and half a lifetime to be equipped to even start. It was a long journey in human time, and distance. Like crossing an unexplored new continent solo and on foot, but in the adventure I found and brought back way more than just hunks of gold in the streams and big diamonds in the sand.
These new works are answers to life's imperfect human questions. In part, that's why I ask you for your dream.
My new work can be bought only on this site. It will belong to a few self-selecting and quite brave people. Please do something many would find incredible and be a part of this amazing journey. I trust this Art will find a way through to you.
Artist's Statement About this Work.
"Making this latest collection of photographic works consumed nearly ten years. It was exciting to start, but to take it to "perfection" was the hardest thing I have ever finished.
To make this thing that can be called Art, beyond just a beautiful visual account of the human condition, needed a wholly different process: to completely obfuscate all the cotton, hay and rags of life and to look clear-heartedly inward and own the truth of one's time, to exclude repetitions, excise vanities, cut away sentiments, and pull a distilled insight out of meaning, so as to be relevant to others.
Each step a slow-motion battle against an army of monsters, common distractions and warm jealousy.
All this to reach a place where Art, this Art, has power beyond any sorcery of matter or new arrangement of old words.
If done right, something life-altering can happen when enough emotion, experience and human honesty are concentrated at one time and in one object. At that moment, something strikes deep inside, and the meanings of common words can be changed, things ugly written are reset, and anything can be forgiven, a life transformed."
Angelo Valentino
Commissioning an Artwork
a small number of works are created each year.
buyers will not see the work beforehand.
you will know that it exists because you caused it to exist.
Current Price $95,000
The price rises on a bonding curve, i.e. increasing about 5% with each sale.
To buy leave a private note below.
The Curve:
Each work increases the price of the next.
This is not a discount structure. It is a record of belief.
You are recorded as the ones who moved first.
Included: private delivery, framing, wooden packing case, artist signature, tax paperwork, provenance, future catalogue inclusion, and authenticity certificates
The things to know:
1) This work is personal to you so: get in touch below and if you could just tell me in a few words, about a dream you had, I will produce your Artwork and send it.
2) You will get an immediate reply when you order, the work will take a little time to produce and deliver, you will get updated at every stage..
3) Important - Your artwork is sold unseen. You will love it when you receive it, but if you wish to, just send it back and your artwork will be destroyed without publicity, then the full price you paid will be refunded, (minus 7.5% and costs). The increased price will not revert.
Contact form is below:
Payment:
On receiving your order, I will send you full payment details.
The small rules:
One work per collector. Refund without reason within 30 days.
No discounts, no swaps, no additions, the price is the price. I accept Bank Transfers/Visa/Cash/Gold/BTC/ETH etc for exactly the USD price at that days exchange value. A full tax compliant UK invoice and certificates is then issued in the name, foundation or company you nominate for full transparency and to keep the authenticity chain complete.
The Promise:
When full funds are received, a large work will be produced, signed, authenticated and dispatched to your address in a large wooden crate by International courier. (or you can collect and meet)
Each patron receives a formally documented work, delivered privately, with provenance and future catalogue inclusion.
Patrons may choose to remain anonymous or be acknowledged at a later stage.
Art works are dispatched/collected from London UK.
United Kingdom sales tax may apply**
** My limited company sells my Art under UK law and is registered for UK VAT
Company details:
Papa G Limited - Registered in England and Wales.
Company Number 5139754. VAT Number 188 4899 27
Administrative Registered Office: Building 6 – No 30 Friern Park London N12 9DA
Managing Director: Angelo Valentino.