Valentin Gonzalez
Artist Profile
Born in Gijón, Asturias, Spain. Valentin once specialised in commercial photography, covering
many different fields such as editorial, fashion, industrial and social photography.
More recently he became director of a photographic digital printing laboratory whilst
also producing exhibitions of his personal work. It was this dedication to his personal
work that ended his commercial photography in 2003.
He investigated, in collaboration with specialised entities, new colour systems and
graphic working spaces for many complex applications in the ceramic world and
within photography itself. He also designed a working colour space, named Triton,
which is currently in use in the professional photographic world.
Since 2000 Valentin has explored the characteristics of digital systems in relation to
analogic captures, focussing his work on the control and divergence of colours and
image developing.
He is a member of the group “Coloravanzado” dedicated to the investigation
of colour and other themes relative to image, for whom he had produced
dozens of didactic videos about colour control and with technical contents for
photographic applications.
In spite of all his experiences in the digital field, he did not make his first personal
collection entirely in digital format until 2010.
He also completed after four years, a personal project for a book containing 270
images of the 400 km of the coast in Asturias, northern Spain. This project was seen
as an editorial work for a limited edition of a great format “jewel book”, with the
approach of classic photography. He defines his work as “an artisan game in which
images don´t have individual value but can only be appreciated in the whole of the
complete work, when it can be understood how I felt whilst taking the photos. In the
end, I understood why the men in the caverns worshiped the sea as a god”.
Antonio Pena, Gallerist.
