Helen V de Manolo Valdés
Helen V de Manolo Valdés
Helen V de Manolo Valdés

Helen V de Manolo Valdés

  • Año: 2005
  • Técnica: Aguafuerte y aguatinta firmado y numerado a mano
  • Tamaño: 166 x 94 cm
  • Edición: 50

En Helene V, Manolo Valdés construye una imagen de gran presencia visual a través de la combinación de grabado y collage. La obra recupera ecos de la pintura clásica, pero los transforma mediante un lenguaje contemporáneo, depurado y rotundo. La ausencia de rasgos en el rostro convierte a la figura en una presencia universal, más cercana al símbolo que al retrato individual. Sobre el fondo mostaza, el abrigo negro adquiere una fuerza casi escultórica, mientras que el casco, enriquecido con fragmentos y referencias visuales, introduce una dimensión histórica y narrativa. Como en buena parte de su producción, Valdés no cita el pasado de forma literal, sino que lo reinterpreta, estableciendo un diálogo entre la memoria de Velázquez y la mirada moderna.
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BIOGRAPHY AND FINANCIAL DATA

BIOGRAPHY AND FINANCIAL DATA

Manolo Valdés is a Spanish artist (Valencia, Spain, 1942) whose career includes painting, sculpture, and printmaking. In 1964, he founded Equipo Crónica together with Rafael Solbes and Juan Antonio Toledo; after Toledo’s early departure, the group co... Leer más

Manolo Valdés is a Spanish artist (Valencia, Spain, 1942) whose career includes painting, sculpture, and printmaking. In 1964, he founded Equipo Crónica together with Rafael Solbes and Juan Antonio Toledo; after Toledo’s early departure, the group continued with Valdés and Solbes until 1981. Their collective work was linked to Pop Art and to a critical view of Spanish society and politics during Franco’s regime.

After the dissolution of Equipo Crónica, he developed an individual career based on the reinterpretation of images from art history. His paintings and sculptures revisit figures and motifs from artists such as Velázquez, Goya, Matisse, and Picasso, with special attention to material, texture, color, and the simplification of forms. In sculpture, he has also worked on a monumental scale.

His work is part of collections such as Museo Reina Sofía, IVAM, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and MoMA. He has presented exhibitions in institutions such as IVAM and Museo Reina Sofía, which organized a retrospective of his individual career in 2006. He received the National Prize for Visual Arts in 1983 and the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts in 1998. Leer menos

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Master
Ranking
Top 100
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+10 million euros
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