Moisès Villèlia was born in 1928 in Barcelona, though he moved to Mataró in 1942 because his father was designated as director of a furniture factory, who later opened his own studio. He learns carving from his father, working on Santa Maria de Mataró basilica high altar as well as in Santa Anna chappel carving. In the fifties the artist came into contact with the avant-garde circles of Catalonia, becoming part of the Club 49 group of artists through his friendship with Joan Prats. 1954 was a turning point in his work, because for the first time he exhibited individual at Museu Municipal of Mataró as well as he broke with figurativism establishing Art Actual group, defender of transgressor and avant-garde art.

From this moment he exhibited individually regularity, especially in different places of Barcelona along the sixties, at the same time he alternates his work with industrial design and theatre. His works begin to abandon wood to switch to fiber cement, concrete, metals or polyester, among other materials. At the end of this decade he moved to Paris thanks to a scholarship from the French Institute, and later to Argentina and Ecuador. Upon his return in 1972, he settled in the Girona Pyrenees, where he worked through bamboo, a material in which he began during his stay in Ecuador. When he returned, in 1972, he settled in Girona’s Pyrene, where he worked with bamboo, a material that he discovers during his time in Ecuador.

The 70s and 80s continued this intermittent line of exhibitions, highlighting the anthology dedicated to him by the Fundació Joan Miró in 1983 and later by the Center d’Art Contemporani de Girona in 1990. During this time he sets up a series of works in the form of spider webs , addressing the juxtaposition of humble materials close to nature, such as bamboo or ceramic. In his sculptures there is a symbiosis between nature in the wild and that which has been dominated by man, tracing organic forms in the air that are projected into space.

Currently, we can find his work in important museums like Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Museo ARTIUM or IVAM in Spain, as well as around the world in collections like the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo or Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg.