VALENTINO'S "GREATEST HITS"
February 2026

Valentino’s Greatest Hits brings together painting, sound, and poetry in an exhibition that reimagines how an artistic practice can be presented. Rather than working within a single visual language, Valentino has long developed distinct bodies of work driven by curiosity, play, and technical exploration. While these works often stand confidently on their own, bringing them together within a single exhibition has posed an ongoing challenge. It was from this need for cohesion that the album concept emerged.

Using the structure of a greatest hits retrospective, Valentino unifies diverse visual approaches within a single collection, much like different genres coexisting on an album. The exhibition features newly created works that revisit and rework selected techniques from across the artist’s practice — the “greatest hits.” Each artwork functions as an individual “single,” while together they form a cohesive collection that embraces variation rather than uniformity. Presented as oversized vinyl record sleeves, the paintings reference music culture and invite viewers to consider art as something that can be collected, replayed, and reinterpreted over time.

Extending beyond the visual, each artwork is transformed into an audio file generated directly from the image itself. A poem accompanies each piece, offering a lyrical response inspired by its mood and atmosphere. In a reversal of the traditional creative process, the artwork becomes the starting point, giving rise to sound and language rather than the other way around.

Valentino’s Greatest Hits is a cross-sensory exhibition that explores sentimentality, indulgence, loss, lust, and liveliness, while examining the evolving relationship between image, sound, and meaning.