Dario Villalba

The Museo Reina Sofia dedicated to Dario Villalba the long-waited anthology exhibition that looked over in depth the work considered today as one of the greatest and most influential artists of the Spanish art in the last decades, not only his great international renown. Despite his previous exhibitions at main contemporary art museums in Europe, this show was Dario Villalba's first solo exhibition at the Museo Reina Sofia. This catalog is a monograph on Villalba's work and artistic trajectory in which the commissioner, Maria Luis Martin de Argil's text appears as well as an unpublished essay by Francisco Calvo Serraller, and a complete documentary appendix that gives a full account of his biography, artistic chronology and bibliography. The catalog also includes a text by Miguel Fernandez Cid and the reproduction of some of the Basic Documents.

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Born in San Sebastian in 1939 Dario Villalba painted in Ahdre Lhote's studio in Paris for several months. In 1962 he received a scholarship for his studies at the University of Harvard, which implies a series of exhibitions in USA. Villalba won the International Painting Prize in 1973 at the 12th Sao Paulo Art Biennial. In 1979 he was awarded the International Prize of the Jury at the 13th Ljubljana Graphic Art Biennial. In 1983 the artist received the National Visual Art Prize. On 17th November, 2002, he became a tenure member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, addressing the opening speech: "Around the creative act: new reflections". In 2003 Villalba was assigned to the Medal for the Fine Art Merit. His work belongs to numerous prestigious collections such as Solomon Guggenheim; Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; National Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo; IVAM; Museo de Arte Abstracto Espanol de Cuenca; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia.

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