June 27, 2013

MANOLO VALDES AT PERA MUSEUM ISTANBUL PART 1


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MANOLO VALDES AT PERA MUSEUM ISTANBUL, TURKEY
May 8, 2013 – July 21, 2013




MANOLO VALDES AT PERA MUSEUM ISTANBUL – TURKEY
Paintings & Sculptures
May 8, 2013 – July 21, 2013
Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera Museum is pleased to announce a unique exhibition of Manolo Valdés, one of Spain’s most celebrated contemporary artists, from 8 May through 21 July 2013. The exhibition, organized in collaboration with Marlborough Gallery New York, includes selected works of Valdés, his paintings and sculptures from the 1980s to the present day. A leading figure in Spanish Pop Art and renowned particularly for the diversity of his technique and media, Manolo Valdés’ large-scale works, and quests in form, have proven him to be one of the great masters of contemporary Spanish art.
Valdés represented his homeland in the 1999 Venice Biennale and has since been honored with exhibitions of his monumental sculptures in Beijing, Miami, Monaco, San Francisco, and St. Petersburg.  Valdés is one of the few contemporary artists to successfully master the disciplines of drawing, painting, sculpture, and lithography. In 1964 Valdés, along with Rafael Solbes and Joan Toledo, formed an artistic team called Equipo Crónica, the collective used irony and art historical appropriation to comment on the Fascist regime of Francisco Franco. Toledo soon left the association but Valdés and Solbes continued to collaborate until Solbes' premature death in 1981. Following Solbes' death, Valdés reinvented himself creating the paradoxically muscular and refined expressive style centered on art-historical motifs, which he continues to explore today.
Valdés recreated and recontextualized some of Western art's most representative icons, creating his own private language through a distinctive production of series, and playing with variations on certain themes. His potent works are instigated from masterpieces of the past, bearing historic clues of colors and textures with robust references to art and its history.  Impassioned by artists of the past ranging from Zurbarán to Velázquez, Matisse to Lichtenstein, Valdés finds more than just inspiration in their paintings; he uses their work “as a pretext” (como pretexto) to create an entirely new aesthetic object - a painting or sculpture that, while clearly sourced from a known composition, is a uniquely brilliant work of art in itself.
Valdés’s work is featured in over 40 public collections, including those of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Menil Collection in Houston, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. He has permanent sculptures in many places, including Beijing, Madrid, and Bilbao.
2006 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Rafael Solbes, and the consequent dissolution of Equipo Crónica—a quarter of a century in which Manolo Valdés has continued to work on his own. In the work of this second half of his life, Valdés has preserved all of Equipo Crónica’s ironic efficiency, its ability to create strong visual imagery that can be easily understood but hard to forget. In an interview, he admitted, I like to say that I am a repertoire artist, like the singers that prefer to stick with certain operas because they can perform them better. The repertoire of my images, the images I always fall back on, are the series of [Equipo] Crónica, which are never truly finished.
You may reach to read Manolo Valdes conversation with his paintings and another exhibition news at Marlborough Gallery New York to click below  links.

http://mymagicalattic.blogspot.com/2013/07/manolo-valdes-at-pera-museum.html
http://mymagicalattic.blogspot.com.tr/2013/11/manolo-valdes-at-marlborough-gallery.html




PORTRAIT OF A LADY WITH NECKLACE 2009 




PORTRAIT IN BLUE & ORANGE 2010






LADY WITH ORANGE HAT, 2009
Oil on Burlap
Dimensions: 239.5 x 200.5 cm
© Artist Manolo Valdes 2013






LADY WITH ORANGE HAT, 2009 ( DETAIL )


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NUDE I, 2010
Oil on Burlap
Dimensions: 183.3 x 238.9 cm
© Artist Manolo Valdes 2013


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BLUE NUDE, 2005 ( DETAIL )


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BLUE NUDE, 2005 ( DETAIL )




BLUE NUDE, 2005
Mixed Media on Canvas
Dimensions: 172.1 x 229.9 cm
Private Collection
© Artist Manolo Valdes 2013






PORTRAIT IN WHITE & RED 2009












PERA MUSEUM ISTANBUL




PERA MUSEUM ISTANBUL
Inaugurated on 8 June 2005, Pera Museum is a private museum founded by the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation. The aim of offering an outstanding range of diverse high quality culture and art services is as important today as when the Museum first opened its doors to the public.
Couched in the historic quarter of Tepebaşı, the impressive building was originally conceived as the Bristol Hotel, designed by architect Achille Manoussos. Restorer and architect Sinan Genim was given the daunting renovation operation in 2003; the triumph of transforming the interior into a modern and fully equipped museum is only matched by the architect’s mastery in simultaneously preserving the exterior façade, safeguarding an integral part of Istanbul’s architectural flavour.
Through Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation's three permanent collections, “Orientalist Paintings”, “Anatolian Weights and Measures”, and “Kütahya Tiles and Ceramics”, Pera Museum seeks not only to diffuse the aesthetic beauty of these collections but also to create dialogue with the public concerning the values and identities that they encompass. Utilizing a full scope of innovative methods, including exhibitions, publications, audio-visual events, educational activities, and academic works, the objective of transmitting the beauty and importance of these works to future generations is realised. Having organized joint projects with leading international museums, collections, and foundations including Tate Britain, Victoria and Albert Museum, St. Petersburg Russian State Museum, JP Morgan Chase Collection, New York School of Visual Arts, and the Maeght Foundation, Pera Museum has introduced Turkish audiences to countless internationally acclaimed artists. Some of the most illustrious amongst these include Jean Dubuffet, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Rembrandt, Niko Pirosmani, Josef Koudelka, Joan Miró, Akira Kurosawa, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Fernando Botero, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Goya.
Since its inauguration, Pera Museum collaborates annually with national and international institutions of art and education to hold exhibitions that support young artists. All of the Museum’s exhibitions are accompanied by books, catalogues, audio-visual events in addition to education programs. Parallel to its seasonal programs and events, Pera Film offers visitors and film buffs a wide range of screenings that extend from classics and independent movies to animated films and documentaries. Pera Film also hosts special shows that directly correlate with the temporary exhibitions’ themes.
Pera Museum has evolved to become a leading and distinguished cultural center in one of the liveliest quarters of İstanbul.
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LILLIE X – 2005




LILLIE X – 2005 ( DETAIL )




PERA MUSEUM WELCOMES GREAT SPANISH MASTER MANOLO VALDES
Pera Museum salutes the spring of 2013 with an extensive exhibition comprised of the paintings and sculptures of Manolo Valdés, one of Spain’s most important contemporary artists.
As one of the founding members of Equipo Crónica, a pioneering movement in contemporary art established in 1964, Valdés started working solo and set his own distinctive style from 1981 onwards.
Taking inspiration from ancient civilizations, old masters of the Spanish Golden Age such as Velázquez, Zurbarán, and Goya, and more recent artists such as Matisse, Picasso, Léger and Brancusi, as well as focusing on current themes, Valdés created fascinating works of art in the ensuing years.
Having captured the attention of the art world through paintings he often executed with burlap and layered paint, as well as sculptures of metal, wood, and alabaster, Valdés left his imprint on contemporary art with his unique approach, rendition, and works. With his fresh take on the works and subjects from which he—self-admittedly—derives his inspiration, Valdés transforms a two-dimensional image into a three-dimensional one and lends the work a new identity.
Comprised of 59 works, 46 paintings and 13 sculptures, focusing predominantly on the subject of the female, this exhibition will not only take art-lovers on a pleasant journey across Valdés’s rich and colourful world of imagination that extends from ancient civilizations to great masters of the past and present, but it will also draw considerable interest from art circles in Turkey and abroad.
Pera Museum brought this exhibition to life over a period of two years in collaboration with Marlborough Gallery New York, one of the leading galleries in the world. We would thus like to take this opportunity to extend our heartfelt appreciation to the esteemed artist Manolo Valdés, the Marlborough Gallery New York management and staff, the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera Museum team, as well as all other individuals and institutions that have contributed towards this project.
Suna, İnan, & İpek Kıraç




LILLIE X – 2005 ( DETAIL )




THE NEWSPAPER, 1997
Oil on Burlap
Dimensions: 217.1 x 156.5 cm
© Artist Manolo Valdes 2013


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THE NEWSPAPER, 1997 ( DETAIL )




QUEEN MARIANA XII, 1982
Wood
Dimensions: 153 x 115 x 100 cm
© Artist Manolo Valdes 2013


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QUEEN MARIANA, 2005
Bronze
Dimensions: 170 x 125 x 90 cm
© Artist Manolo Valdes 2013


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LADY OF ARGEL V, 2011
Oil on Burlap
Dimensions: 172 x 120 cm
© Artist Manolo Valdes 2013




LADY OF ARGEL V, 2011 ( DETAIL )


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LADY OF ARGEL V, 2011 ( DETAIL )




CLOCK IV, 1999
Oil on Burlap
Dimensions: 165.1 x 152.4 cm
© Artist Manolo Valdes 2013






CLOCK IV, 1999 ( DETAIL )




VIVIANNE III, 2005
Oil on Burlap
Dimensions: 170.2 x 132.1 cm
Private Collection
© Artist Manolo Valdes 2013




VIVIANNE III, 2005 ( DETAIL )


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VIVIANNE III, 2005 ( DETAIL )




RIBERA AS PRETEXT 1988




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RIBERA AS PRETEXT 1988 ( DETAIL )




NUDE IN PINK 2010




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SILVER BUTTERFLIES, 2011
Aluminium
Dimensions: 103 x 242 x 90 cm
© Artist Manolo Valdes 2013


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FANS ( DIPTYCH ) 1994 ( DETAIL )






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MANOLO VALDÉS 
1942   Born in Valencia, Spain, on March 8th
1957   Entered the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia, Spain; left in 1958 to devote his life to painting
1964-81         Formed the group “Equipo Crónica” with Joan A. Toledo and Rafael
Solbes; Toledo left the group after a year but Valdés and Solbes continued their association with “Equipo Crónica” until the death of Solbes in 1981. As a member of “Equipo Crónica,” Manolo Valdés participated in over sixty solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions.
The artist lives and works in New York, USA and Madrid, Spain.
AWARDS AND HONORS
1965   Biella Prize, Comune di Biella, Milan, Italy
1979   Silver medal, 2nd International Biennial of Prints, Tokyo, Japan
            Prize, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Lisbon, Portugal
1985   National Medal of Fine Arts, Government of Spain, Madrid, Spain
1986   Medal of the Biennial, International Festival of the Plastic Arts, Baghdad,
            Iraq
1993   Order of Andrés Bello Award, Honour Class, Caracas, Venezuela
1997   32nd Prize of the National Council, La Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco
1998   Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts, Minister of Culture of Spain, Madrid, Spain
1999   Representative for Spain, International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
2000   The Spanish Association of Art Critics Award for Print, Madrid, Spain
The Spanish Association of Art Critics Award for ARCO, Madrid, Spain
2002   The Spanish Association of Art Critics Award for Print, Madrid, Spain
2004   Valenciano Award of the 21st Century, Las Provincias, Valencia, Spain
2005   Order of Cultural Merit, Ordonnance Souveraine, Monte Carlo, Monaco
2006   Archival Award Spain 2005, Madrid, Spain
            Doctor Honoris Causa, University Miguel Hernández, Elche, Spain
2007   National Order of Merit, President of the French Republic, Paris, France

2010   International Medal of Community Arts of Madrid, Madrid, Spain