"Dario Villalba: Documentos Basicos"
2001-03-23 until 2001-05-27
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea
Santiago, , ES Spain

CGAC features a wide selection of Documentos Basicos (Basic Documents) created by Dario Villalba (San Sebastián, 1939). These snapshots serve as a basis for a creative process, which finds its personal expression in the coexistence of photography and painting. This pioneer in the use of photography as an artistic medium in the mid-seventies, uses the photographic image (in its dialogue with painting) as a base to convey sensations. From his earliest steps - he was present in the XXXV Biennial of Venice in 1970 - he as advocated for this pictorial quality of the photographic image. His personal way of dealing with the human body - eluding an eventual classification as a portrait maker - defines throughout his thirty-year-long career a possibility for research and innovation in the contemporary art scene.

Darío Villalba is one of the most widely acclaimed Spanish artists of the last few years. In 1984, he obtained the National Prize for Plastic Arts. In 1994, the IVAM devoted a great retrospective show to his oeuvre. His works are held in representative collections in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in the National Gallery, Oslo, and, in Spain, in the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), or the Museo de Arte Abstracto in Cuenca, the Juan March Foundation, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), or the Telefónica Foundation.

CGAC will produce a catalogue of the Documentos Básicos, which will prove a fundamental instrument towards an understanding of Dario Villalbas artistic career, with texts of the artist and Miguel Fernández-Cid.

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