Seeing Guillermo Pérez Villalta's extraordinary exhibition
in Sala Alcalá 31 is like coming into his thoughts and guessing all his
extraordinary inner world.
It is an exhibition without linear corridors, with nooks and
crannies, dead areas and surprises across the corner, like those that seem in
lots of his enigmatic artwork that he has been growing for greater than 4 decades.
Not in useless the exhibition "Art as a labyrinth"
Humble and close, Pérez Villalta is one of the notable
names in Spanish painting,
his work seems in the foremost museums in Spain and
additionally in international collections such as the Marugame Hirai Museum in
Japan or the Guggenheim in New York.
He started painting within the Seventies, self-taught and
despite the fact that he anticipated among the renovations to the premises that
might be vital throughout the Nineteen Eighties, his paintings is very
personal, it does not in shape into one style.
I were given to understand his work after seeing Pedro
Almodóvar's final film,
Pain and Glory. There, artwork with the aid of the painter
regarded within the residence of the protagonist of the movie. As he explored a
touch greater, I learned that they have been each friends from the Madrid scene
and that he had even participated as a further in a La Mancha film.
It is true that every one of his work has an eighties
contact that, greater than ever, is current once more.
The not unusual denominators of it are color, the analysis
of mild, geometries and the game of views. Always with the labyrinth and a
chain of figurative elements that recreate an surroundings with a paranormal
and magical contact.
Quite a genius, sure sir.
Seeing Guillermo Pérez Villalta's magnificent exhibition at
Sala Alcalá 31 is like entering his mind and guessing at his notable internal
international.
His exhibition does now not have linear corridors, with
nooks and crannies, lifeless areas and surprises in the corners, like people
who appear in many of the enigmatic art work of him that he has been growing
for extra than four a long time. Not for nothing is the exhibition entitled
"Art as a Labyrinth".
Humble and on hand, Pérez Villalta is one of the
high-quality names in Spanish painting, his paintings may be visible inside the
predominant museums in Spain however additionally in worldwide collections
which include the Marugame Hirai Museum in Japan or the Guggenheim in New York.
He commenced painting within the seventies,
in a self-taught way,
and although he predicted among the preservation premises that might succeed
all through the eighties, his paintings may be very personal, it does no longer
match into one style.
I got to understand his paintings after seeing Pedro
Almodóvar's last film, Pain and Glory. In it, some of the painter's paintings
seemed in the house of the protagonist of the film. Going deeper, I located
that the two have been buddies since the days of the Movida Madrileña and that
he even participated as an additional in some of Almodóvar's movies.
It is true that each one of his paintings has a hint of
the 80s that, more than ever, is in music with the instances.
The commonplace denominators of it are coloration, the
evaluation of light, geometries and the sport of views. He usually uses the
labyrinth and a series of figurative factors that recreate an ecosystem with a
magical and magical contact.
The painter absolutely converted the Sala Alcalá 31,
which became as soon as a church, and gave it a positive sacred air. According
to the artist “it is completely intentional, the religious or transcendent
experience may be very important in my paintings. We remodel the room right
into a kind of temple, with chapels around it ”.
In this particular architecture, inside the shape of a
labyrinth, there are a number of the maximum famous works of the author and
also some that he likes lots. "Self-portrait inside the morning", for
instance, is the first flat portray that he makes and it is on this that he
synthesizes for the first time his particular concept of eclecticism and the
aggregate of different languages.
You can see an evolution inside the color of his art work,
greater alive within the early years, and extra subtle inside the most recent:
“I like extraordinary colorations, I make my personal colorings and I like
that.
Stay active, exercise each day.
In addition to
designing gadgets and painting, he has created a collection of jewels and has a
mess of pending initiatives, even though he admits that he will not have time
to finish all of them: “I need to pick, lifestyles is fading. "
One of the ones that fascinates him the most is an order
from the Tarifa City Council for the Isla de las Palomas, "a magical
area." “I would really like to create labyrinthine areas,” he explains,
“through which human beings can walk as though it were a place of meditation.