José Huellas Mirabal

JOSÉ HUELLAS MIRABAL (Caracas, Venezuela)
"Unamuno's Chess 1930," 2026.
Mixed media. Acrylic on 300 g/m² canvas.
Certificate of authenticity signed by the artist included.
Measurements: 70 x 50 cm.

A work inspired by Don Sandalio and Unamuno’s philosophy, in which the artist transforms the chessboard into an inner battlefield where reason and passion clash. The composition transfers the existential tension of the game to the pictorial plane, making each piece a symbol of consciousness, destiny, and freedom.

The canvas unfolds a geometric architecture of intersecting planes and vibrant colors—reds, yellows, turquoises, and blacks—that evoke the player’s intellectual and emotional pulse. The chess pieces emerge among overlapping angular and curved forms, as if thought were materializing in motion. The queen, the knight, and the pawn cease to be mere pieces and become metaphors for the being who seeks meaning in strategy, for the individual torn between calculation and intuition. The work combines the rigor of Cubism with the intensity of Expressionism, creating an atmosphere where color becomes thought and form becomes reflection.

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.