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Manolo Valdés: I Dettagli Luminosi, Venice

Past exhibition
9 May 2017 - 6 May 2018
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Manolo Valdés, I Dettagli Luminosi, Venice
The exhibition brings together the latest works of the great spanish master, 40-50 pieces exploring his life and distinctive language.
The new works, all of which created for the exhibition at Contini Art Gallery, depict beautiful, stylized figures in the artist’s well-known signature style. Valdés, famous for depictions of women in all media, has created some of the most communicative works of his storied career. Charming female heads in aluminum, bronze or alabaster, paintings and large-scale collages as Perfil II, which weds a late Matisse collage technique to Renaissance-style drawing. The blue bronze visage in Mariposas Azules is adorned with dozens of massive butterflies in a sculpture that is as uplifting as it is profound. The exhibition also includes sculptures from the Las Meninas series, which are based on the famous painting by Diego Velázquez. The recurring, “semiabstracted” Reina Mariana, is translated into three dimensions, rendered in bronze, and presented in isolation, containing references to its original context and yet possessing a life of its own. Velázquez, Rembrandt, Matisse, are his starting point for the creation of a work. Valdés acts as an image-hunter; he chooses a central theme and develops it in series, proposing different meanings and giving back a unique and contemporary image, but not devoid of its original value. He appropriates the most famous masterpieces of the past and then associates them with a contemporary realization: the vivid and vibrant visual language, the study of the matter, the pictorial realism, the use of multidimensional layers and large-scale works, are just some of the features that make his immediately recognizable style.
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Installation Views
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Img 0241
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Manolo Vald S 2012 Dama A Caballo Legno Wood Pezzo Unico Unique Piece Cm 150X167X41 2
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Manolo Vald S Blue Pamela 2016 Legno Dipinto Painted Wood Pezzo Unico Unique Piece Cm 106X132X125
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Manolo Vald S Caballero 2012 Alluminio Alluminium Ed 7 Of 9 Cm 157X140X60 2
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Manolo Vald S Blue Table 2016 Legno Dipinto Painted Wood Pezzo Unico Unique Piece Cm 159X125X75 2
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Manolo Vald S 2015 Helechos Alabastro E Ferro Alabaster And Iron Pezzo Unico Unique Piece Cm 73X122X34
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Manolo Vald S Cabeza 2015 Alabastro E Ferro Alabaster And Iron Pezzo Unico Unique Piece Cm 110X112X38 2
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Manolo Vald S Blue Head 2016 Legno Policromato Painted Wood Pezzo Unico Unique Piece Cm 118X128X60 2
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Manolo Valdes Ferns Iii 2015 Alabastro E Ferro Alabaster And Iron Pezzo Unico Unique Piece Cm 85X117X60 2
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Valdes Dama A Caballo Bronzo 2012 100X106X34
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Valdes Reina Mariana Resina 2016 112X84X61
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Valdes Dama A Caballo Legno 2012 150X153X39 2
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Valdes Ivy Legno E Ferro 2013 65X62X30
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Valdes Iris Ottone 2013 46X29X18
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Valdes Reina Mariana Bronzo 2011 108X82X52
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Valdes Ferns Ii Alabastro E Acciaio 2014 43X54X29 2
Publications
  • Dettagli Luminosi

    Dettagli Luminosi

    Manolo Valdés Galleria d'Arte Contini, 2017
    Hardback 216 pages
    Dimensions: Peruzzo
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