Manolo Valdés in Singapore. Orchard Road and Botanical Gardens, Singapore.
September 2017 - March 2018

Presentation of 16 monumental sculptures by Manolo Valdes along the Orchard Road, and then reinstalled at the Botanical Gardens in Singapore. As Javier Molins writes in the catalogue, “these monumental sculptures represent a new direction for Valdés, since the majority of them are painted. Valdés is returning to the polychrome sculpture tradition so characteristic of ancient civilisations, such as Egypt and Greece. The marble Parthenon sculptures of Athens, now in the British Museum, were originally painted, and in the Spanish Golden Age of painting, the baroque sculptures by artists like Berruguete and Alonso Cano were also highly coloured”.

This exhibition follows the current contemporary art trend of showing artworks in open-air public spaces. Manolo Valdés is one of the main exponents of this trend, and has exhibited his sculptures in places as diverse as Park Avenue in New York in 2002, the Palais Royal in Paris in 2005, the Château de Chenonceau in 2005, Bryant Park in New York in 2007, the Château de Chambord in 2010, Broadway in New York in 2010, the streets of The Hague in 2010, New York's Botanic Garden in 2010, Place Vendôme in Paris in 2016 and the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia in 2017.