VILLAFUERTE - Three of a Kind
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Description from the seller
Three of a Kind
2019
Acrylic on wood
19 × 19 cm each; framed size 22.5 × 22.5 cm
Three small paintings from 2019, brought together as a single composition. Each work has its own character, gestures and fragments, yet together they form a lively visual exchange. Distinct, but belonging to the same hand, they share the instinctive energy and layered approach of Villafuerte’s work from this period.
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.
Three of a Kind
2019
Acrylic on wood
19 × 19 cm each; framed size 22.5 × 22.5 cm
Three small paintings from 2019, brought together as a single composition. Each work has its own character, gestures and fragments, yet together they form a lively visual exchange. Distinct, but belonging to the same hand, they share the instinctive energy and layered approach of Villafuerte’s work from this period.
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
Yes
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Direct from the artist
Edition
Original
Title of artwork
Three of a Kind
Technique
Acrylic painting
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Spain
Year
2019
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
19 cm
Width
19 cm
Weight
1 kg
Style
Abstract
Period
2010-2020
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