{"id":164,"date":"2009-07-16T11:37:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T18:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nyconsulatemonaco.earth-host.org\/?p=164"},"modified":"2009-07-16T11:37:14","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T18:37:14","slug":"monumental-manolo-valdes-sculptures-to-inhabit-monacos-casino-gardens-for-the-summertime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monaco-consulate.com\/redesign\/monumental-manolo-valdes-sculptures-to-inhabit-monacos-casino-gardens-for-the-summertime\/","title":{"rendered":"Monumental Manolo Valdes Sculptures to Inhabit Monaco&#8217;s Casino Gardens for the Summertime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-165\" title=\"Ada\" src=\"http:\/\/nyconsulatemonaco.earth-host.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ada_manolovaldes-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ada\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/>Throughout this summer, and for the first time, the monumental works of the eminent Spanish sculptor, Manolo Vald\u00e9s, will take pride of place on two mythical sites on the C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur: the Principality of Monaco and Saint-Tropez. <!--more-->The Monaco exhibition, under the High Patronage of H.S.H. the Sovereign Prince of Monaco will be installed in the Monte-Carlo <a href=\"https:\/\/casinoscanada.reviews\/\">Casino<\/a> Gardens and will feature seven massive bronze sculptures which will dominate the area. Four other sculptures will occupy several main sites in the city of Saint-Tropez, accompanied by a group of five sculptures, depicting Las Meninas, at the entrance to the citadel of Saint-Tropez.<br \/>\nThe exhibition of monumental sculptures by Manolo Vald\u00e9s is presented in conjunction with the exhibition of paintings by the artist, to be held at the Marlborough Gallery Monaco from 24 June to 18 September 2009 and provides an unique opportunity to discover the polymorphic work of Manolo Vald\u00e9s. The exhibition at the Casino Gardens will end on 30 September (and in Saint-Tropez on 31 October). Sponsors include the Marlborough Gallery in Monaco and Monte-Carlo SBM.<br \/>\nManolo Vald\u00e9s, a great connoisseur of Art History, has drawn inspiration from a variety of influences over the years. Old masterpieces are the main inspiration for his creations, including works by great masters such as Masaccio, Ribera, Velasquez, Goya, Bonnard, Matisse and Picasso. Through his sculptures and paintings, Vald\u00e9s recounts the major periods in the history of art, presenting new, independent and original work. Often focusing on specific pictorial details, he updates images from the past and stimulates our visual memory. His dramatic use and combining of various materials demonstrates his creativity and the importance he accords to the sense of touch. The effects of imperfection, tears, non-completion and welding which can be seen in his work and which have been carefully developed, reveal the texture of the support and reinforce the reference to touch, so central to the artist\u2019s approach.<br \/>\nBorn in 1942 in Valencia (Spain) Manolo Vald\u00e9s enters the Fine Arts School San Carlos of Valencia which he left in 1958 to devote his life to painting. In 1964, Vald\u00e9s formed the group Equipo Cronica with Joan A. Toledo and Rafael Solbes, one of the most important Pop Art group in Spain. Vald\u00e9s and Solbes continued their association until the death of Solbes in 1981. Through Equipo Cr\u03ccnica, Manolo Vald\u00e9s participated in more than 60 solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions.<br \/>\nIn 1982, the artist entered his artistic revision period, according ever more importance to texture and support. During this period, he became interested in the opportunities offered by volume and the three-dimensional variations in the iconography of Velasquez. Since 1983, he has been working with sculpture and, gradually, has found his own voice through an infinite number of materials such as alabaster, bronze, marble, granite, ceramic, silver and, above all, wood, which he appreciates for its irregularity and natural polychromy. In 1999, he started to reproduce the images of Velasquez in bronze. He has also created a series of impressive heads adorned with hats inspired by the paintings of Matisse: heads transformed into caryatids crowned by a mixture of unusual shapes and patterns.<br \/>\nThe year 1999 also marked the beginning of installations with a project for the city of Bilbao. Then public commissions and temporary installations followed: La Dama de Elche designed for the city of Valencia, whose first large-scale model is placed in 2002 on Park Avenue; Las Damas de Barajas in the airport in Madrid; La Dama del Manzanares (13 meters high) in Madrid; Reina Mariana in Monte Carlo. Since then, his large sculptures have been exhibited in such cities as Biarritz, Munich, Bilbao and Murcia.<br \/>\nThe artist has received many awards and commendations and numerous solo exhibitions and retrospectives have been devoted to him throughout his career, including in 2002 at the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao and in 2006 at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof\u00eda in Madrid. In 2005 a major exhibition of Meninas was held at the Palais Royal in Paris and in 2006 a personal exhibition at the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul de Vence. In 2007 his monumental works were presented at Bryant Park in New York and in 2008 in Las Ramblas of Barcelona. The same year two major exhibitions were held at the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg and the National Art Museum of China in Beijing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout this summer, and for the first time, the monumental works of the eminent Spanish sculptor, Manolo Vald\u00e9s, will take pride of place on two mythical sites on the C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur: the Principality of Monaco and Saint-Tropez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","category-exhibition","tag-marlborough-gallery-monaco"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Monumental Manolo Valdes Sculptures to Inhabit Monaco&#039;s Casino Gardens for the Summertime - 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