Manolo Valdés in glass / Kosme de Barañano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valdés, Manolo, 1942- artist.

Barañano Letamendía, Kosme María de, 1952- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Valdés, Manolo, 1942---Catalogs.

Valdés, Manolo.

Sculpture, Spanish--21st century--Catalogs.

Sculpture, Spanish.

Glass sculpture--Spain--21st century--Catalogs.

Glass sculpture.

Glass art--Spain--21st century--Catalogs.

Glass art.

Valdés, Manolo, 1942-.

Spain.

Genre:

catalogs (documents)

Catalogs

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

109 pages : color illustrations ; 35 cm

Other Title:

In glass

Place of Publication:

London : Anomie Publishing, 2022.

Summary:

"For over half a century, Valencia-born, New York-based Manolo Valdes has been a prominent international figure in the arena of contemporary art, known for his work in the mediums of sculpture, painting, drawing and collage. In this striking and imposing publication, designed in close dialogue with the artist by Peter B. Willberg and produced in Italy, Valdes presents a body of thirty-five sculptures created in 2020 and 2021. Along with wood, alabaster, aluminium, steel and resin, the primary medium employed in this body of work is glass, following a significant and intense period of research and experimentation. The resulting works are engaging contemporary portrait busts that make reference to the history of modernist painting and sculpture, taking inspiration from imagery and objects by twentieth-century masters such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Constantin Brancusi. This large-format publication, which is illustrated by specially commissioned photography by Tom Powel, documents many of the sculptures from different angles and by means of details, revealing not only the subtleties and qualities of the surfaces of the abstracted, humanlike glass heads, but also the curious and eclectic appendages that regularly appear to burst forth from them like unorthodox fascinators or eccentric jewellery, from nails and steel rods to glass or metal butterflies and wooden geometric forms. With a timelessness that speaks of civilisations long gone and a modernity that simultaneously seems to look to the future, Valdes has created a body of sculpture in glass that transcends time, touching on the metaphysical nature of the human mind and its outward manifestation in the physical world."--Publisher's webpage.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781910221372

1910221376

OCLC:

1308471387