José Huellas Mirabal

JOSÉ HUELLAS MIRABAL (Caracas, Venezuela)
"The Maltese Falcon 1944" 2026.
Mixed media. Acrylic on 300 g/m² canvas.
Signed.
Certificate of authenticity signed by the artist, with a unique registration code, included.
Measurements: 70 x 50 cm.

Work by José Huellas Mirabal inspired by the enigmatic atmosphere of film noir and the iconic movie The Maltese Falcon. The composition reinterprets the myth of the desired object and the tension between truth and appearance through a vibrant geometric structure, in which mystery is expressed through color, form, and rhythm.

The canvas unfolds a composition of angular planes and intense hallmarks, dominated by reds, yellows, blacks, and turquoises. The abstract forms suggest faces, gazes, and hidden symbols, as if the falcon were breaking down into fragments—eyes, beak, feather, and legs—and dissolving into memory and desire.

The work combines references to Cubism with the energy of contemporary Expressionism, creating a piece that engages in a dialogue between the cinematic and the pictorial, between the tangible and the imagined. The Maltese Falcon 1944 thus presents itself as a reflection on the quest, the greed, and the beauty of the enigma.

José Huellas Mirabal is a Spanish painter with Latin American roots. Trained at the School of Fine Arts in Valencia, he has developed a practice centered on abstraction, combining acrylic painting, collage, oil, printmaking, and digital media. For more than fifteen years, he has explored his own visual language based on color, geometry, and the symbolic construction of the image.

His work revolves around two main strands: Cosmogonic Vision, in which he depicts terrestrial elements from a sidereal or planetary perspective, and Perceptual Narrativism, in which he draws on great literary works or cultural concepts to transform them into abstract images of a symbolic nature.

He has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Alicante, Valencia, Barcelona, Caracas, Mexico City, Puebla, and São Paulo, and his works are part of private collections in Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands, and various Latin American countries.