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Hi, I am Angelo,

Welcome to my official website.

There are NO images here, no gallery here and I don't display any of my artwork online... 

But, if you are interested in understanding about some of my new photographic works, read on.

If you need to see some Artwork and you can wait a bit, leave your email and I will invite you to an exhibition or otherwise you will have to get lucky.

If you have to, you can BUY an Artwork at the end of this page, you just can't see it... yet.

You will have to pay, answer one question and you have to trust someone - at least until your work arrives.

How buying art from me works:

You pay the full amount in advance, answer my question (honestly) and I will choose an artwork and send one to you. Easy.

You will not know what you have acquired until the Artwork arrives in its recyclable packing crate. You will be happy, I fully guarantee that.

The cost to own a work is currently:

$85,000*

* One Artwork per buyer. Thirty day return policy.

There is considerable trust on your part.

Especially if you don't know me.

Have no doubt, the work you receive, will be beyond your expectation and the whole process of trusting will bring you a great reward.

Plus as a trusted buyer you will get VIP first access to future offers and projects for life.

If you are "in" - here is all you need to know:

Scroll to the bottom of this page and buy, in a few steep steps:

1) Make a short description of a dream you have had.

2) Send the full payment to me.

3) Give an address where the Artwork can be delivered.

I will update you throughout.

Thank you for trusting me and my website...

To buy now, scroll to the bottom:

I am not a salesman and I am an artist, and believe me, I am interested in you.

I would like your trust, and your suport.

You are a part of this Art as soon as you read these words, and you actions could be about to be a part of an Artwork's history.

These latest private Works have taken more than 10 years to reach final maturity and now each needs to find (the right) new owner - you!

The plain curious - not only investors / supporters, they have already scrolled to the buy form at the bottom of the page. You and I are here because we are curious minds and interested in each other.

Please read on, even if you can't buy a work today.

The first question I am asked: "If you are serious, and as good as to be believed, why on earth sell Art only in this dumb way?

Because it's Art.

Yes, I am an "Artist"... but it will make a real difference. You and I and this story will be forever part of the history of this work, a tapestry that forms your Artwork. It will change us both and connect you to this work and me to you.

If...

You can trust yourself.

You will get much more than a story about how you acquired this Artwork.

I am Angelo Valentino, an artist.

I have chosen to sell my lifetime-best works only in this unique way. That is not because my work is not great and would not sell in a gallery, it is exactly the opposite. It is because, they are among the greatest works I have ever done, I know you will take a deep deep breath when you first open your big delivery box, and at that moment - the world will be just a little more trusting.

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 100% truthful for a moment: Almost anyone with common sense will tell you that you are making a mistake, even buying from a living artist... on the internet!

Today I hope, you are not going to listen to them or their "obvious" common sense. These are the people that have so often held you back from all the stranger fun things in life, the best actions, the exciting and rewarding things. But real things, movement of value always has a cost, and a risk.

As humans we are programmed to judge with distrust, even to doubt ourselves... and that is a terrible place for any intelligence. As it also cruelly holds us back from any good change.

This whole site is based on a "crazy idea" that there exist a few people that will trust in their own higher senses and feelings. Our feelings do not lie to us, we lie to them. In the past, you probably ignored your instincts and stayed pretty sensible.

Buy an Artwork today, and you will get something of real importance to you.

Something that will be of real value to you and the world.

Discover your ability to trust your own intuition, intelligent curiosity and natural instinct: To know without knowing, you have found something of beauty and lasting importance.

Here is something about my Art, and why you should buy it!

About my recent works:

"On seeing his work I now totally get it. That any copy of these is seen before the achingly beautiful originals would spoil an opportunity to feel something real, for me it was a wave of emotion, of inner Joy."

Jane Ballentine - Ballentine Collection USA

"There is something intense locked into these pictures."

Eleanor Golden - Chateau la Faux, Pont Du Gard, France.

"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

"I could not speak, I felt these photographs touch my soul."

Usher Raymond

"One of today's most important hero artists, working intentionally in near anonymity"

Stanton - Arts Review

Public:

"I would sell my soul and own one of these"

"Listen to me. I know a thing or two about art, if these are not selling for $1.5m in a couple of years for the injustice I will burn down the Louvre, the Tate and the MET"

"The most beautiful single thing I have seen in my life"

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