Guillermo Pérez Villalta

GUILLERMO PÉREZ VILLALTA (Tarifa, Cádiz, 1948).
"The box of echoes", 1991.
Mixed media on cardboard.
Signed with initials and dated in the lower corners.
With label on the back of the Senda Gallery and Soledad Lorenzo Gallery.
Work published in "Guillermo Pérez Villalta", Salvador Riera Gallery, ref. 22, no. 9.
Measurements: 100 x 70 cm; 104 x 74 cm (frame).

Pérez Villalta was one of the maximum representatives of the New Figuration of Madrid. He was granted a scholarship by the Ministry of Culture in 1975, by the Juan March Foundation in 1980, and by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Spanish Academy in Rome in 1989. Among his awards are the National Prize of Plastic Arts in 1985, and the Medal of Andalusia in 1989. Since his solo debut in 1972 at the Amadís gallery in Madrid, Pérez Villalta has had many personal exhibitions in such prominent places as the Juana de Aizpuru, Vandrés, Soledad Lorenzo, Rafael Ortiz and Soledad Riera galleries, the National Library, the Estampa fair, the Banco Zaragozano and the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao. He has participated in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum in Tokyo, the Guggenheim in New York, the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon and the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, among many others. Pérez Villalta is represented in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Artium in Vitoria, the Patio Herreriano in Valladolid, the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo in Málaga, the Fundación Juan March in Palma, the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville, the Fundación Suñol in Barcelona, the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno in Las Palmas, the Museo Colecciones ICO in Madrid and the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao, among other prominent contemporary art collections.