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Villafuerte, Been Here Before, an original acrylic painting (66 × 69 cm) from Spain, created in 2026 in Abstract Expressionism, hand signed, unframed, in good condition, sold direct from the artist.
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**Been Here Before**
A dense and deeply layered abstract composition in which colour, drawing and accumulated surfaces continually emerge, overlap and disappear. Greens, ochres, rose, blue and darker passages move through a shifting field of marks, creating a sense of movement, recognition and return.
The work was revisited and completed in 2026 on a repurposed paper surface, allowing traces of its earlier life to remain part of the finished painting.
Acrylic on repurposed paper
66 × 69 cm
Unframed
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.
**Been Here Before**
A dense and deeply layered abstract composition in which colour, drawing and accumulated surfaces continually emerge, overlap and disappear. Greens, ochres, rose, blue and darker passages move through a shifting field of marks, creating a sense of movement, recognition and return.
The work was revisited and completed in 2026 on a repurposed paper surface, allowing traces of its earlier life to remain part of the finished painting.
Acrylic on repurposed paper
66 × 69 cm
Unframed
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
Been Here Before
Technique
Acrylic painting
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Spain
Year
2026
Condition
Good condition
Height
69 cm
Width
66 cm
Weight
1 kg
Style
Abstract Expressionism
Period
2020+
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