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Today we introduce you to Santiago Villanueva, Madrid 1964, currently residing in Mallorca. Villanueva began his training and initiation in1984 from 1986-1995 he worked as an artist and teacher with Abraham Dubckovsky the Argentine sculptor and architect planner. His work: causes, produces and creates visual and physical impressions and sensory pleasures, space and forms that are capable of enclosing and hiding something and demarcating soluble volumes. The pieces are of respectful sizes, clean lines and defined but at the same time fragile, silky smooth but yet again clear due to the materials used. As he describes it, art linked to the intimate experiences of the body and time, in search of an interior portrait joined with beauty resulting in essential interlocutor. I would venture to add, not only art materialized in space and in time but also feeling, emotion and pleasure that envelops us.
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Art conceived as an intimate experience of body and time, a quest for an internal portrait in which beauty becomes an essential interlocutor. In Barthes’ words, “a delicate fold through which we have pinched, promptly, the page of life, the silk of language. Nothing remains stable; there is a changing balance: transitions that depict the internal forces like an omen of what is bound to happen. Actions captured in the middle of a transformational process, inertia that can be considered as part of the development, or the will or the stimulus. These works are about actions, which can only be interpreted through the senses. Thus, they are not meant to provoke simple visual pleasure or mere tactile experiences. On the contrary, they are meant to stimulate desire, to seduce us until we sensorially penetrate the objects, until we can feel the emotions from a deeply private and subjective place. This whole concept, hence, is built and defined from its core as a duality of two languages that constantly interact: one of matter and one of senses.

Santiago Villanueva started his artistic education in 1984 at the courses organized by Eduardo Peña; from 1986-1988 he attended drawing classes at the Circulo de Bellas Artes de Madrid. Between 1985 and 1995 he cooperated as artist and as teacher with the studio of the Argentinean sculptor Abraham Dubckovsky. From 1985 on, he combined studying of art with his studies at the High University of Architecture in Madrid, from which he obtained degree of Urbanist Architect in 1993. Villanueva started exhibiting his work in 1986 and since 2009 he has had numerous individual solo and group exhibitions with Galería Xavier Fiol, Palma de Mallorca, Spain; Galería Mario Sequeira, Braga, Portugal; Galeria Juan Silio, Santander, Spain; and Diana Lowestein Gallery, Miami, FL. His works have been regularly exhibited at art fairs since 2010; among others in Spain, Italy, London (ART), and Miami (Pulse).