MAURIZIO VALCH

Mediterranean Poetics is a series of symbolic landscapes inspired by the Mediterranean imaginary, understood not as a purely geographical representation, but as states integrated between existence and the inner observer. Minimal horizons, suspended atmospheres and stripped-back spaces configure a territory where painting becomes an experience of calm, expansiveness and contemplation.

The compositions are built through planes, segments and strata that organise space as a perceptual rhythm. This fragmentation does not suggest rupture, but rather a way of ordering the gaze: layers of experience that draw closer and move apart, generating visual silences and inner pauses.

Within these works appear monolithic structures, stairways and celestial bodies—moons and suns—in states of suspension or eclipse. The monoliths function as human and civilisational traces; silent presences that traverse the landscape. The stairways suggest passage and inner ascent. Celestial bodies introduce an interval of veiled vision, a time of recollection.

The relationship with the desert-like is central. Not as emptiness, but as a mental space of immensity: a place where solitude manifests as expansiveness and stillness as a profound state of presence. The landscape thus becomes a field of inner resonance, closer to poetic experience than to narration.

Mediterranean Poetics remains an open series, integrated within the broader body of work. It functions as a silent expansion of earlier investigations, where inner movement, fragmentation and symbolism find a more essential, contained and contemplative form.