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Art in America cover featuring Jean-Pierre Villafañe's 2022 painting “Twelfth Night." Image courtesy of Art in America.
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Jean-Pierre Villafañe, whose painting Twelfth Night (2022) appears on the cover of the Winter 2024 "Collaborations" issue of Art in America, is the subject of a “New Talent” profile in the magazine. From his studio in New York, Villafañe told A.i.A. the backstory of the piece.
“When I became a painter, after the pandemic, I felt like interpersonal relationships had shifted, and domestic spaces had become highly public. In "Twelfth Night", you have geometrical segmentation and fragmentation of the human figure, where it’s becoming split, and then also abstract fragmentation that aligns with the way I see the city and its inhabitants as a dynamic, shifting part of a larger narrative.” - Villafañe. |
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In his 2022 hand embellished, limited edition print with ART FOR CHANGE, Sombras, Villafañe explores similar themes of rhythmic compositions influenced by his formal architectural training.
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JEAN-PIERRE VILLAFAÑE
Sombras, 2022 Archival pigment print 24 x 18.5 inches Edition of 25 with 5AP + 1PP Hand-embellished, signed, and numbered by the artist Sombras is a rich, rhythmic composition teeming with illusionistic depths of field, geometric tricks, and tangible verve expressed through satirical groupings and dramatic figures. Sombras renders the social environment and its identifiers with a sharpness and spirit that dances out of the canvas. Through a complex, cubist sense of layering, the artist explores notions of intimacy, sexuality, self-concept, and performativity through a destruction of the distinctions between figure and environment. The artist has hand-embellished the edition with additional acrylic details in the scene, making each print a unique work.
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Jean-Pierre Villafañe's cover of Art in America, available at international newsstands.
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Jean-Pierre Villafañe with his ART FOR CHANGE limited edition print, “Sombras”.
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Jean-Pierre Villafañe (b.1992, Puerto Rico) received his MA in Architecture at Columbia University in New York in 2019 and his BFA from SCAD, Savannah. In 2017, he collaborated with Tatiana Bilbao’s office on the architectural installation (Not) Another Tower; for the Chicago Architecture Biennial at the Chicago Cultural Center. In 2019 Villafañe shifted his focus to concentrate on developing his painting practice. Recent solo exhibitions include 2022, Fireworks, Hoffmann, Maler and Wallenberg, Nice, FR (2022), Baile Latinoamericano: Museo de Arte y Diseño, San Jose, CR (2021), Divertimento: Donde Hay Una Catastrofe, Hay Un Escape, EMBAJADA, San Juan, PR (2021), Apartamento, 54 Elizabeth, New York, NY (2020). In the fall of 2022 he opened a solo exhibition at ATM gallery in New York. He currently resides and works between San Juan and New York.
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