BIOGRAPHY

Valerio Berruti was born in Alba in 1977.

The artist uses the ancient technique of “affresco”, sculpture, and video animation to create essential images inspired by the suspended world of childhood, the moment in life when everything has yet to happen.
In 2009, he participated in the 53rd Venice Biennale, where he presented a video animation with music by Paolo Conte, composed of 600 frescoed drawings. In 2011, his video "Kizuna," exhibited at the Pola Museum in Tokyo with a soundtrack written by Ryuichi Sakamoto, became a charitable project for the reconstruction of Japan after the devastation caused by the earthquake. The following year, he won the international Luci d'Artista prize in Turin and created a permanent land art work at the Nirox Foundation in Johannesburg.
In 2018, he began working on the animated short film "La giostra di Nina," co-produced by Sky Arte, with a soundtrack composed by Ludovico Einaudi. The large carousel was exhibited in the fall of 2018 in the Church of San Domenico in Alba and subsequently at the MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Arts and the Royal Palace of Venaria. In June 2022, his sculptural work "Liberi tutti" became part of the ArteParco project within Abruzzo, Lazio, and Molise’s National Park. In the same year, his monumental work "Alba," a bronzed stainless steel sculpture over 12 meters high, was inaugurated. It was donated by the Ferrero family to the City of Alba and placed in the central Piazza Michele Ferrero, dedicated to the entrepreneur.