Manolo Valdes
Manolo Valdés is a Spanish artist known for his unique method of drawing from art history to create his paintings, prints, and sculptures in a signature style of pared-down forms and unrefined mark-making. Born on March 8, 1942 in Valencia, Spain, the artist attended the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts but left before graduating to start his career. Along with Juan Antonio Toledo and Rafael Solbes, he formed the group Equipo Crónica in 1964, an offshoot of the Pop Art movement with the focus of creating work imbued with political critique. “[To] us Pop was a means to engage in a political battle,” Valdés explained. “But also a way out and against the domineering artistic tendencies associated with Informel.” Toledo left the group after a year, but Valdés and Solbes continue their collaboration until the latter’s death in 1981. In 2016, Marlborough Gallery organized a public exhibition of six massive sculptures at the Place Vendôme in Paris. He currently lives and works between New York, NY and Madrid, Spain. Valdés’s works are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Guggenheim Bilbao, and the de Young Museum in San Francisco, among others.
-
Manolo Valdés' public display in Rome
ROME September 19, 2020Three sculptures in the historic center to give Rome an international flair. For piazza San Silvestro, piazza di San Lorenzo in Lucina and piazza della...Read more -
Oblong Implements a new technology: the virtual gallery
Dubai April 16, 2020In such unprecendented times, where most of global countries are forced to quarantine following the wave of corona virus, art businesses face challenges in trying...Read more -
A collective exhibition marks the opening of Oblong in Forte dei Marmi
Forte dei Marmi July 6, 2019Oblong Contemporary is enthusiastic to announce the opening of its first space in Forte dei Marmi, Italy. Forte dei Marmi, province of Lucca, is home...Read more