Name: Michel Valentino

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Job: Multi-Disciplinary Artist, Director, Photographer

Url: http://www.michelvalentino.com

About: I was born in 1972. End of the 80ties I pursued a military career as a jetfighterpilot. A nearly fatally accident changed me and my view of life basically, and made me leave the military roots to start into the visual and performing arts. From 1990 untill 1996 I studied film and arts. Since then I worked on countless projects (film, photography, art and theater) all over the world. Since 2006 I dedicated my complete work the performing and fine arts. My work reflects my discussion with life in a society which is driven and controlled by politics, war, fashion, drugs, entertainment, consumerism and constant propaganda. I see myself more as a catalyst of the things around me. I collect (mind) pictures and impressions and try to interpret these. I still do commercials and music videos for international industries, which is fun, but that work does not give me much sense, and so I searched for another medium to express my feelings and thoughts better. I am not a rebel or anarchist, and in my work I become a realist. But I still try to have the eye of a child in my way of looking at pictures like a child of war, who wishes better days and more colour back to the world. My goal is very simple: To communicate the human experience at a level that human beings can recognize and relate to. That may be a personal statement. It may be a political statement. But whatever it is, it all comes from the same point of reference: The experiences we share as people of this planet.

Get Inspired by: As a 9-year-old I was inspired a lot by the works of Gottfried Helnwein, H.R.Gieger, Jan Saudeck, Anselm Kiefer, Hajime Sorayama, Francisco De Goya, Salvador Dali, Rudolf Schwarzkogler and many other artists of this unusual Generes. The Music of Artists like Mike Patton, Tool, PJ Harvey, Vangelis, M83, Leonard Cohen, Marylin Manson, System of a Down, Karl Jenkins, Jean Michel Jarre and many others, are always great inspirations while I work on a Project. Treaveling around the world and working together with other artists is mostley the greatest inspiration to make a good job.