Considered a total artist for his mastery of multiple artistic disciplines, Guillermo Pérez Villalta studied architecture, a career he eventually abandoned to devote himself to painting. His work is closely linked to the New Figuration of Madrid in the seventies, of which he was a central figure. He has exhibited his work in the historical galleries Buades or Fernando Vijande, always showing a work committed to artistic freedom.
During his first stage, Pérez Villalta made a colored painting with clear baroque and mannerist influences that can be catalogued as neo-Mannerist. With the passage of time, the artist abandons the pure colors to use more earthy tones. His works show a clear influence of architectural studies in the representation of emptiness and light, elaborating geometric compositions in which he introduces symbolic and mythological elements. They are eclectic compositions, even labyrinthine, where traditional and modern motifs dialogue and coexist.
The Suñol Soler Collection contains several of the artist’s works, largely from his production during the seventies, including Artistas en una terraza (1976) and El taller (1979).
List of artworks
Conversaciones sobre arte mediterráneo , 1976
La isla , 1977
Interior madrileño o La intriga , 1978
Interior madrileño o La intriga , 1978
Cabeza de dragon furioso , 1977
Júpiter e io , 1979
El taller , 1979
El taller , 1979
Extasis en la siesta , 1979
Peregrino estático , 1986
Sense títol , 1975
Sense títol , 1975
Sense títol , 1982
Conversaciones sobre arte mediterráneo , 1976
Cabeza de dragon furioso , 1977
Extasis en la siesta , 1979
Sense títol , 1982
La isla , 1977
Júpiter e io , 1979
Peregrino estático , 1986
Interior madrileño o La intriga , 1978
El taller , 1979
Sense títol , 1975
Twenty Faces and Three Crowds
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FACE(S)
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