María Amelia "Meli" Valdés Sozzani (born 1977) is an Argentine painter.
Biography Valdés Sozzani was born in La Plata. She started painting at an early age making her first solo exhibition in 1996. Her early works are influenced by surrealism, although of a very personal nature,Jorge Héctor Paladini "MELI VALDES Y EL DIFÍCIL TERRITORIO DE LA REALIDAD Y EL SUEÑO" Diario Hoy, Sección Espectáculos, La Plata, 9 de julio de 1998. "(...)una atractiva muestra de esta artista, adscripta a un surrealismo de muy personal perfil (...)" already evidencing an interest in the symbolic, rather than dreamlike, content of images. These concepts would be characteristic of her future work.
In 1998 a series of her paintings was exhibited in Artexpo New York City, at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York (Art BusinessNews Show Preview, Feb. 1998, ISSN 0273-5652). On that occasion she received the Artist Pavilion Award in recognition to the originality of her work."Distinción para una artista", Diario La Nación de la Plata, suplemento de Cultura, 26 de abril de 1998. Her works have been exhibited in her country, the United States and Italy."Con los colores de la imaginación", por Marina Calles, Diario La Nación de La Plata, domingo 7 de diciembre de 1997
In 2006, in collaboration with the Argentine writer Alejandro Córdoba Sosa, she made a series of forty illustrations based on the flash fiction stories that make up the book Doscientos y un cuentos en miniatura (Two Hundred and One Miniature Stories).Doscientos y un cuentos en miniatura, (De los Cuatro Vientos Ed., 2007, )
In 2013, on the occasion of the seventh centenary of the birth of Giovanni Boccaccio, she made a series of paintings inspired by the Decameron.
Style Figuration in Valdés Sozzani's art is a means to explore the deeper realities behind the concrete in order to reveal the subtle frame that hides behind the sensible world. Time, a constant theme in her work, results in enigmatic images of moving lyricism.Jorge Héctor Paladini "MELI VALDES Y EL DIFÍCIL TERRITORIO DE LA REALIDAD Y EL SUEÑO" Diario Hoy, Sección Espectáculos, La Plata, 9 de julio de 1998. "(...)un lirismo dolorido en el que el tiempo que todo lo erosiona, trama los mensajes de la artista, que plasma figuras enigmáticas de conmovedora atracción"(...)" Her paintings are also characterized by high brightness and chromatic richness.Jorge Héctor Paladini "MELI VALDES Y EL DIFÍCIL TERRITORIO DE LA REALIDAD Y EL SUEÑO" Diario Hoy, Sección Espectáculos, La Plata, 9 de julio de 1998, "(...) con una gama de colores que discurren como una melodía(...)"
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