Profil (Frank Stella)
2008
Here, Valdés re-imagines the sitter from Fra Filippo Lippi's painting Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement (c. 1440). Considered to be one of the defining works of Italian Renaissance portraiture, Valdés combines this classical artwork with a collage fragment of a painting by the revered American Minimalist, turned Maximalist artist Frank Stella. Valdés works to revitalise these familiar images from art history by taking them out of their original context. Here Valdés has inflated the figure's size, abstracting form and minimising the original detail, while incorporating rough mark making and collage.
Etching, aquatint, drypoint and collage in colours, 2008, on handmade paper, signed in pencil, numbered from the edition of eight, 122.7 x 92.5 cm. (48¼ x 36½ in.)
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