A selection of artworks by internationally renowned artists will be on show: Manolo Valdés, Igor Mitoraj, Pablo Atchugarry, Park Eun Sun, Julio Larraz, Enzo Fiore and Mario Arlati.  

Considered to be one of the most significant masters of the 21st century, Manolo Valdés, co-founder of Equipo Cronica, is an eclectic artist whose innovative expressive research is rich in quotations from the history of art. The influence of Velázquez, Picasso and Piero Della Francesca shines through in his works, which communicate in an artistic vocabulary that is at once familiar and original. The reference to the masterpieces of the past is associated with careful technical, material and compositional research that makes his style immediately recognizable.  Reference to the past can also be found in the sculptures of the famous Polish artist Igor Mitoraj, inspired by classical iconography updated in a personal key. Bronze and marble are molded to create fragmented, bandaged, mutilated bodies and faces: typically, Hellenic subjects are reinterpreted in order to reflect on profound themes such as life, death, time and the past.  The Uruguayan artist Pablo Atchugarry is internationally recognized for his creations that blossom, turning into bronze and supple tongues of fire, painted with vivid paints, and sometimes into soft waves of white marble. The sculptures, projected vertically and metaphorically into the future, suggest a return to nature as a source of creative inspiration. Purely sculptural is also the work of the Korean artist Park Eun Sun, characterized by precise geometries, skillfully molded and polished, but riddled with cracks symbolizing the opening of human interiority and at the same time the destruction of matter. Twisted columns and spherical shapes in stone or bronze achieve refined balances, merging in their essence the oriental culture of origin and the western culture of adoption of the artist. Julio Larraz, an artist of Cuban origin, addresses current political and social issues in his figurative paintings. Through his dreamlike and metaphysical style, open to other dimensions, he denounces injustice with underlying irony in a playful and grotesque manner. In the proposal of Italian artists, the Milanese Mario Arlati shares a predilection for using different materials in their creative process, which they skillfully transform into material works.  Enzo Fiore, an artist whose language of expression is based on very precise choices concerning the complex expressive world where the use of matter to construct a work of art places the consistency of human beings in evidence; through his portraits, a strong bond is established between Man, Nature and Culture.