Moisès Villelia
Prints Available from Grafos Verlag
 The homecoming of the moon |
Villelia carried out his late works at the age of 58. They are testimony to his great lucidity and artistic consistency. Empty space is the focus, filled emptiness embodied by bamboo, as well as circles and sequences. Brightness becomes material. The moons close up. Cyclical phenomena come to the fore. Seed strings and sprouts, rolling up and unrolling, elementary forces of life before a white stillness. The spiral forms of development are notched with green. It is only a small step from microcosmic to macrocosmic movements: the homecoming of the moon. |
 La sinfonia celeste |
La sinfonia celeste. Celestial Symphony.. A most heavenly symphony. This print is related to the previous one. The circle looks like the cross section of a bamboo reed and simultaneously embodies the empty space open to form. The circle often appears in Villelia's pictorial vocabulary. Etchings in pastel tones. For this artist, creative force appears in the cyclical. A diagonally stepped arrangement of four planetary orbits. Sound rises from the white background. |
 el silencio del otoño |
Villelia created a remarkable etching series for the Basel Art Fair in 1992. This Grafos print, el silencio del otoño (The Silence of Autumn), belongs to this series. Villelia dedicated himself to concrete art implements: the circle, the line, the plane. The moons close in on themselves, the white circular shapes becoming interior shapes. And in between, on a linear outline, a small red circle like a sun. 'The Silence of Autumn', a print which recalls Japanese Haiku poetry, and like these three-lines poems, perhaps it contains the entire world. The print refers to the power of metamorphosis of all living things. ek |
 El Halo del la Luna |
Bright white is the color of the paper in this horizontal format print. The moon is embodied in a pinkish silvery tone. Distance is suggested by the small, pinkish red circle next to the large white moon. His images are reduced to nearly nothing. This is typical of Villelia. He was a forerunner of the Arte Povera movement in his plastic application of simple materials like bamboo and straw. Something of this is also perceptible in his graphic works. ' El Halo del la Luna' (The Moon's Halo) a color etching from his Pyrenees etching series. |
 Yellow with White Circles |
'Yellow
with White Circles'. A deep stillness permeates the graphics by
Villelia which fix constellations of circles in space. Jupiter, Neptune,
Saturn, Mercury, Venus, Pluto, Uranus - the seven planets are flanked
by the sun and the moon, imbedded in the bright yellow background, mediating
the widespread transparence of space. |
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