Valls creates traditional style oil paintings that portray the psycho-surgical enigma of the human figure. Many of Valls' subjects have a 'natural balance' of male and female characteristics.. They are often given a physical sex, but their gender remains ambiguous. This is both challenging and inspiring.
From an interview with Combustus magazine...
Deanna Elaine
Piowaty: In Jungian psychology there is an acknowledgement that men and
women possess aspects of each other’s gender ~ that men have an anima,
or feminine awareness that comes out in dreams and creative efforts. What is
your own connection with anima? How does it manifest itself in your
life and in your work?
Dino Valls: One of
the basic themes in my work is the duality in conflict, the struggle for the
integration of the opposites, as a process of totalization of the human
being.
Simultaneously, my painting is to me
the mystic process that I follow to achieve my own
integration.
http://www.combustus.com/13/dino-valls/
