13 Bronze Figures Reinterpreted from Velázquez’s ‘Las Meninas’ Line Up in a Central Venice Plaza — Colossal



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13 bronze ladies in broad pannier skirts stand single file in St. Mark’s Sq. in central Venice. The massive-scale set up is the work of Spanish artist Manolo Valdés and on view for the sixtieth Venice Biennale that opened earlier this month.

Identified for recontextualizing the enduring figures, colours, and textures all through Western artwork historical past, Valdés as soon as once more pulls from well-known supply materials for Las Meninas a San Marco as he reinterprets the topics of Diego Velázquez’s 1656 portray “Las Meninas,” or “The Women-in-waiting.” Led by the monumental “Infanta Margarita” who stands on the middle of the unique portray, the trailing figures are “Reina Mariana,” a nod to the infanta’s mom framed in a portrait within the background of Velzázquez’s work.

Las Meninas a San Marco has come under fire from Italia Nostra-Venezia, a company that opposes galleries paying for public areas to stage artworks and what it calls the “‘biennalization’ of town.”

The challenge can be on view by means of June 15, when one of many “Reina Mariana” sculptures can be donated to town.

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