"Manolo Valdés is one of the great visual artists to emerge in Spain during the second half of the last century. His work, “already part of select collections and prestigious museums,” forms an inexhaustible and limitless world, where the most diverse techniques, the rarest materials, and the most contrasting tendencies converge. Valdés’s work undoubtedly represents timelessness in art: that rare capacity some works have to remain relevant at any moment because they always refer us to what is enduring, to what is transcendent, both in form and in content. Painter, sculptor, builder of unclassifiable objects, the unstoppable yet coherent trajectory of Manolo Valdés does not come to a halt because the artist cannot anchor himself in the comforts of the conventional. This remarkable book, which should not be missing from the library of any art lover, is the first devoted entirely to his work. In it, the artist’s explorations are traced, along with several critical reflections on his practice and an initial study by Tomás Llorens."