MANN dedicates an exhibition to Spanish artist Manolo Valdés, the first in the South

The National Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN), in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and the Contini Art Gallery, presents a solo exhibition by Manolo Valdés (Valencia, 1942) from Sept. 27, 2023, to Jan. 6, 2024, in the Meridiana Hall. The renowned Spanish artist is exhibiting his works in Naples and southern Italy for the first time. Valdés draws on the Spanish artistic heritage, particularly from Velázquez and Picasso, and from the informal art of his immediate predecessors. Because of the uniqueness of the artist’s vision and creative approach, Valdés’s works fit very happily with the spaces of the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, in a juxtaposition that compares the research and experimentation of the new with the elegance and tradition of the ancient.

This unprecedented encounter represents a new chapter in the cultural dialogue between the Mann and Spain, whose roots are in the very history of Naples, and which has already been expressed this year with the exhibition Picasso and the ancient and with the exhibition at the Museo Marítim in Barcelona Pompeya, el último gladiator, which brings treasures from the deposits to Catalonia.

Manolo Valdés (Valencia, Spain, in 1942) co-founded the group Equipo Crónica, a pioneering Pop Art collective, in 1964. Since 1981 he has held solo shows around the world. Winner, among many others, of the Nacional de Bellas Artes España award, in 2007 he was awarded the title of Officer of the Order of Merit by the President of the French Republic. The works of Manolo Valdés can be found in numerous public and private collections, among them: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre George Pompidou, Paris; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Fundaciòn del Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain; Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain; Kunsthalle, Kiel Germany; Kunstmuseum, Berlin, Germany; Veranneman Foundation, Kruishoutem, Belgium; National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China; Les Terrasses du Casino, Monte Carlo, Monaco. He currently lives and works between Madrid and New York.

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MANN dedicates an exhibition to Spanish artist Manolo Valdés, the first in the South

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