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Dario Villalba
Spanish
Spanish painter. He began studying law and philosophy in Madrid but devoted himself to painting from 1956. He trained for four years at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, continuing at the studio of André Lhote in Paris in 1958 and at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, in 1963. After working in an abstract idiom he turned to figurative painting. In 1968 he began a series of paintings entitled Encapsulated Figures (exh. Venice Biennale, 1970), representing human beings imprisoned in plastic materials. These evolved into thematically related series incorporating reworked photographs and photographs retouched with brushstrokes, such as Redemption Series (1975; priv. col.; see 1976 exh. cat., fig.).
From 1977 Villalba painted a series of large black monochrome pictures with a heavy and even texture (e.g. Anti-resonant Painting, 2×1.6 m, 1979; see 1983 exh. cat., p. 40), and from 1980 he executed abstract collages combining reworked photographs with painted elements, as in Transit (triptych, 2×4.8 m, 1980; priv. col.; see 1983 exh. cat., pp. 50–51). He was awarded the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas by the Spanish Ministry of Culture in 1983.
Paloma Alarcó Canosa. "Villalba, Darío." In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, http://www.oxfordartonline.com.proxy.lib.fsu.edu/subscriber/article/grove/art/T089626 (accessed April 16, 2012).
Person TypeIndividual
French, 1824 - 1898
British, English, active in America, born 1931
