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Artist Statement
Artist's Statement
The sublimation of art and thought occurs through the body. It is there that the invisible manifests, where the idea is embodied and finds form. To reach this threshold, study must be bold, intense, and profound.
Without spirit, there is no ethics or commitment. The work cannot be dissociated from an inner force that animates it. I believe in an art that does not shy away from its emotional and political responsibility, but rather fully engages with the time it inhabits and the bodies that traverse it.
The sublimation of art and thought occurs through the body. It is there that the invisible is made manifest, where the idea takes form and becomes embodied. To access that threshold, study must be bold, intense, and profound.
Without spirit, there is no ethics or commitment. The artwork cannot be separated from an inner force that animates it. I believe in an art that does not shy away from its affective and political responsibility, but rather engages fully with the time it inhabits and the bodies it traverses.
COMPLETE CV BELOW
The sublimation of art and thought occurs through the body. It is there that the invisible manifests, where the idea is embodied and finds form. To reach this threshold, study must be bold, intense, and profound.
Without spirit, there is no ethics or commitment. The work cannot be dissociated from an inner force that animates it. I believe in an art that does not shy away from its emotional and political responsibility, but rather fully engages with the time it inhabits and the bodies that traverse it.
The sublimation of art and thought occurs through the body. It is there that the invisible is made manifest, where the idea takes form and becomes embodied. To access that threshold, study must be bold, intense, and profound.
Without spirit, there is no ethics or commitment. The artwork cannot be separated from an inner force that animates it. I believe in an art that does not shy away from its affective and political responsibility, but rather engages fully with the time it inhabits and the bodies it traverses.
COMPLETE CV BELOW
Current state of the practice
Present Directions
I co-direct the CACoR (Rulo Contemporary Art Center).
Together with the collective, we curate exhibitions, research performance art, and explore the political dimensions of contemporary art.
I run the Moscow Library.
A public, expanding street library.
+1,000 books donated in 2025 to children's schools and hospitals.
I organize weekly gatherings with neighborhood thinkers. Every Friday, we host open conversations about art, philosophy, and politics.
I coordinate the editorial magazine Desde Abajo .
A space for critical thinking and collective production.
I am writing my second novel.
I co-direct CACoR (Rulo Contemporary Art Center) .
Together with the collective, we curate exhibitions, research performance art, and explore the political dimensions of contemporary art.
I direct Moscow Library.
A public, street-based library in constant growth.
Over 1,000 books donated in 2025 to schools and children's hospitals.
I organize weekly gatherings with neighborhood thinkers.
Every Friday, we host open conversations on art, philosophy, and politics.
I coordinate the editorial magazine Desde Abajo .
A space for critical thought and collective production.
I'm writing my second novel.
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Other projects
Amulet Gallery (2018 - 2014)
Director and curator of Amuleto, an emerging art gallery founded in Barcelona with Majka Tkacikova and Marcos Gonzalez Cure.
We work with more than 30 artists, organizing 19 in-person exhibitions (plus several online ones) in Seoul, New York, Barcelona, and Buenos Aires.
Publications:
Living La Nacion Magazine - Hidden Gems. Buenos Aires
Augmented Reality App in Rowdy [App and interactive magazine] Barcelona
You are here, art imitates life with augmented reality in BELLA MAGAZINE. NEW YORK ( see project )
Podcasts
The Artist's Voice Podcast with Jerry Hardesty
Creating a Digital Art Space [The Artist Next Level PODCAST with Sergio Gomez]
Up the River - News story published in 2022
To read it, you should ask the author when you truly intend to read it, in exchange for honest feedback.
Other publications:
Lines and poems (2018)
Poems (X) Poems (2021) with Yarara Editorial.
- No. 1 , No. 2 , No. 3 , No. 4
Time Traveler and Other Stories (2019)
Letters from Afar (2023)
Ernesto and Miranda (2025)
Olha by Olha - Piano album
BIO/CV
Valentino Caruso
Born in 1992.
Producer of cultural thought and action.
Magazines, gatherings, exhibitions, publications and public events.
Studies
Mechanical Engineering (2010–2015, incomplete)
Although not completed, STEM studies were a fundamental foundation for forging discipline and passion in the study of all other branches of life.
CREAmedia Program - Website
I was part of this cultural project incubation and acceleration program in Barcelona, where I was selected with the young gallery Amuleto.
Workshops and training
University of Pennsylvania online course: Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (2018)
Work analysis with Mónica Girón — Imaginary Zone (2022).
Theater workshop with Pompeyo Audivert (2024).
Autodidact
Demanding, curious, dedicated.
Minimum 1 hour of daily reading. Philosophy, politics, and contemporary art.
Daily entries in my diary since the beginning of 2025 (minimum 500 words). Thoughts on the same topics.
(See influences and their percolation in Valentino).
Highlights
Barcelona Academy of Art with Jordi Alama and Gregory Gwiazda
Bicycle trip
Self-residence in Asia
Trip to NY
Circles and gatherings
40+ Art Clubs: Discussion circles around specific topics, written and led by me in essay format.
15+ policy discussions: informal gatherings to generate thought alliances and deeply address the complexity of individual and collective experience.
Curatorship
Open Office, Rulo Art Center (2025)
A Better Me is Coming, Amuleto Gallery (2024).
Beings, Amulet Gallery (2023).
Exhibition of residents in Imaginary Zone (2019).
Global exhibition with its own Augmented Reality application — Trinity Gallery (Seoul, Barcelona and New York) (2018).
+11 previous exhibitions at Galería Amuleto (see website).
Art Director at the TEOREMA festival, 2018/2019/2020. Instagram
Art Director at Eightsquare events 2017-2018.
I worked at the Barcelona Academy of Art for three years. Thanks to my curiosity and outgoing nature, I was able to establish a good relationship with the academy director and with the renowned painter Jordi Alama, a leading figure in the Catalan museum scene. This allowed me to have in-depth conversations with him about his work and vision. On two occasions, I participated in an annual project with the Polish sculptor Gregory Gwiazda, an internationally renowned artist. From him, I learned the meticulousness required to convey movement in sculpture: how muscles can animate and give force to a twist. If these three years were not the most important of my training, they were certainly among the most significant, due to the number of hours spent discussing painting, observing, and understanding the technique of seeing. I was invited to participate in theoretical classes and, in some cases, even in drawing courses. During that time, I discovered that there are vast differences between a painter and an artist, as well as between an artist trained at the academy and a world artist.
Valentino Caruso
Born in 1992.
Producer of cultural thought and action.
Magazines, gatherings, exhibitions, publications and public events.
Studies
Mechanical Engineering (2010–2015, incomplete)
Although not completed, STEM studies were a fundamental foundation for forging discipline and passion in the study of all other branches of life.
CREAmedia Program - Website
I was part of this cultural project incubation and acceleration program in Barcelona, where I was selected with the young gallery Amuleto.
Workshops and training
University of Pennsylvania online course: Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (2018)
Work analysis with Mónica Girón — Imaginary Zone (2022).
Theater workshop with Pompeyo Audivert (2024).
Autodidact
Demanding, curious, dedicated.
Minimum 1 hour of daily reading. Philosophy, politics, and contemporary art.
Daily entries in my diary since the beginning of 2025 (minimum 500 words). Thoughts on the same topics.
(See influences and their percolation in Valentino).
Highlights
Barcelona Academy of Art with Jordi Alama and Gregory Gwiazda
Bicycle trip
Self-residence in Asia
Trip to NY
Circles and gatherings
40+ Art Clubs: Discussion circles around specific topics, written and led by me in essay format.
15+ policy discussions: informal gatherings to generate thought alliances and deeply address the complexity of individual and collective experience.
Curatorship
Open Office, Rulo Art Center (2025)
A Better Me is Coming, Amuleto Gallery (2024).
Beings, Amulet Gallery (2023).
Exhibition of residents in Imaginary Zone (2019).
Global exhibition with its own Augmented Reality application — Trinity Gallery (Seoul, Barcelona and New York) (2018).
+11 previous exhibitions at Galería Amuleto (see website).
Art Director at the TEOREMA festival, 2018/2019/2020. Instagram
Art Director at Eightsquare events 2017-2018.