Villafuerte - The Gambler
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Villafuerte, The Gambler, 2026, mixed media, original edition, 130.5 × 80.5 cm, hand signed, Spain, contemporary 2020+, excellent condition, sold direct from the artist.
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Description from the seller
The Gambler explores uncertainty, intuition, and the courage of committing to the unknown. Built through layers of acrylic, oil stick, and fragments from the artist’s personal journals, the work unfolds as a dialogue between chance and intention. Each gesture becomes a wager, allowing the painting to reveal itself through discovery rather than certainty.
Seller's Story
Noel Villafuerte is a contemporary painter based in southern Spain.
My art is not about me.
My art is all me.
That is the paradox.
The work is not autobiography, identity, or explanation. It does not describe a life; it emerges from one.
Every gesture, hesitation, rhythm, fracture, and layer carries something lived, even when nothing literal is being depicted.
The paintings are not self-portraits in image, but in energy. Instinctive, emotional, contradictory, unresolved, human.
What matters is not where the artist comes from, but whether the work reaches something recognisable beyond language: tension, vulnerability, movement, silence, longing, release.
The paradox remains: the work is not about the artist, yet the artist is entirely inside it.
The Gambler explores uncertainty, intuition, and the courage of committing to the unknown. Built through layers of acrylic, oil stick, and fragments from the artist’s personal journals, the work unfolds as a dialogue between chance and intention. Each gesture becomes a wager, allowing the painting to reveal itself through discovery rather than certainty.
Seller's Story
Noel Villafuerte is a contemporary painter based in southern Spain.
My art is not about me.
My art is all me.
That is the paradox.
The work is not autobiography, identity, or explanation. It does not describe a life; it emerges from one.
Every gesture, hesitation, rhythm, fracture, and layer carries something lived, even when nothing literal is being depicted.
The paintings are not self-portraits in image, but in energy. Instinctive, emotional, contradictory, unresolved, human.
What matters is not where the artist comes from, but whether the work reaches something recognisable beyond language: tension, vulnerability, movement, silence, longing, release.
The paradox remains: the work is not about the artist, yet the artist is entirely inside it.
Details
Artist
Villafuerte
Sold with frame
No
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Direct from the artist
Edition
Original
Title of artwork
The Gambler
Technique
Mixed media
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Spain
Year
2026
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
80.5 cm
Width
130.5 cm
Weight
1 g
Style
Contemporary
Period
2020+
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