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Drawings & sculptures] | From October 1 to November 1 in TWO ART GALLERY |
As the beginning of this new exhibition season, Two Art Gallery presents an individual exhibition dedicated to the multifaceted artist Guillermo Pérez Villalta formed by 35 works;
drawings, prints, and paintings alternate with the design of objects and furniture in a perfect balance of modernity-classicism where the fusion of the ornamental with the functional manages to give a new dimension to certain elements present in everyday life.
Born in Tarifa, Cádiz, on May 12, 1948, he is one of the most relevant artists belonging to the current known as the New Madrid Figuration, a trend developed in Spain from the mid-1970s to the late 1980s, date on which the Postmodernity concludes in this country, Pérez Villalta being one of its most prominent members, with a marked inclination towards anachronism.
He began the career of Architecture, which he left without concluding it to paint, throughout his career he has designed countless buildings and public spaces, although many of them did not materialize, others have been built, and among them we must mention the Kursaal de Algeciras;
Architecture has always been a constant influence on his pictorial work and has remained one of his main activities.
Painter, draftsman, sculptor and engraver, he combines his work with the execution of design and architecture projects, jewelry design and book illustration, such as the series of ten etchings made on the occasion of the special edition of the Phaeton of Count Villamediana present in The exhibition.
As a whole, the exhibition brings back the viewer until the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s as a small retrospective show dedicated primarily to a series of designs, prints, drawings and sculptures, both in small and large format, exhibiting historical pieces , and practically unpublished, such as "La Noria", "Tabernacle of the 12 houses" or "General-Life", fantastic works created in wood, bronze and polychrome iron, accompanied by an extensive collection of the original drawings made by the Cádiz artist , prior to the creative process of each one of them.
Another of the jewels of the exhibition is the “Quadriga Chairâ€, one of its most celebrated designs that was traveling half the world as part of the traveling exhibition “300% Spanish Designâ€, organized by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, composed of the work of the most prominent Spanish designers of the last two decades that could be seen from the most important European countries to Japan, previously through Brazil.
Since 1970 Pérez Villalta set up a style influenced by certain elements of Mannerism and Baroque both in the treatment of color and in the deformations of his figures, impossible contortions, oblique perspectives, foreshortenings and optical games, being considered one of the brightest members of the called "Movida Madrileña".
In the mid-80s it evolved towards a warmer color in a return to schemes of the past, with a looser technique that could remind Titian and some 17th-century masters, it will be at that time, specifically in 1985, when the artist receives the National Prize of Plastic Arts at the young age of 37 years.
Already in the 1990s, as a result of his stay in Rome, he feels more attracted to the simple forms of classicism which leads him to simplify his compositions forgetting that excess of earlier times, baroqueism to which he has looked again in his works most recent.
His interest in the art of other eras has led him to inquire not only in oriental and geometric aesthetics, but also in the iconography of classical mythology and in Christian traditions, contributing a certain symbolism to his work.
In recent years, he decided to re-establish himself in Tarifa, recovering the family home where he had spent his childhood, devoting some of his spaces to the exhibition of his creations.
In 2013 Pérez Villalta signed an agreement with the Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art whereby this museum will receive all his work in donation by means of a will as well as his house in Tarifa, where the artist wishes to expose part of his work.
TWO ART GALLERY
Guillermo Pérez Villalta
October 1 / November 1
Tuesday to Saturday 11 to 14 - 17 to 20.30
Monday and Saturday by appointment
C / Acisclo Díaz, 7 under
30005- Murcia
Source: Agencias
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