Gabriel Painting

"What Villaplana achieves with his paintings is not exposing naked bodies for the sake of nudity, but rather for the sake of the being, of stripping them down to who they really are, actually being nude rather than naked. This has the effect of making the portraits more intimate and therefore more uncomfortable for us the observers, bringing our own fears and insecurities to the forefront of our minds." Limor Gottlieb CANDID MAGAZINE http://candidonline.com/rodolfo-villaplana-naked-nude/ Rodolfo Villaplana did an MA in Fine Art at the Chelsea College of Art graduating in 2013. The Venezuelan, London based artist achieved incredible success in the Young Masters prize 2013 and the London Art Fair 2014 (all sold-out). His last solo show in Venice ANARCHIVOLTO, during the Venice Architecture Biennale 2014 in Massimiliana Tower, has been another sign that Rodolfo is establishing himself as one of the most interesting figurative painters in contemporary art scene. curator Olga MacKenzie