ALCHIMIA DELL'AMORE

The exhibition Alchimia dell'Amore by Valerie Breuleux opens with a tribute to Billie Eilish as Marylin Monroe at the Oblong Contemporay Art Gallery in Forte dei Marmi.

“When Billie Eilish showed up as Marylin at the Met Ball 2021, she inspired me to produce this work, which combines aesthetic ideals with the ideals of a radiant youth that believes in the future of our world".

Valerie Breuleux, who presents her first exhibition in Forte dei Marmi at the Oblong Gallery, talks about her interest in the figure of Marylin Monroe, also the subject of another work on display, Golden Dream: "the image of Marylin was used excessively, I would say almost worn out by the use in art of the last decades. However, according to my artistic vision, Marylin has become a concept of "model", in the same way as the Apollo of the Belvedere or the Venus de Milo. An aesthetic ideal, "the object of universal desire".

If the common denominator of Valerie Breuleux's works is, as she herself affirms, "the desire to desire", all her works perfectly embody this concept which, in particular, is well represented in Bacio eterno, Red kiss, Golden Dust, three among the most passionate and famous kisses in the history of cinema, created by the artist as a reaction to the social distancing imposed in the last two years.

Oblong Contemporary Art Gallery in Via Carducci 14C, Forte dei Marmi, is open every day from 10.00 to 13.00 and 18.00 - 23.00 with free admission.