Víctor Manuel Villarreal (1944 – 2019). Mexican artist born in
Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
The artistic production of this sculptor was mainly developed into two trends:
As an aesthetic chronicler of the Mexican national history and politics and, as a result of the artist’s natural inclination and fascination for the human body, as a hyper-realistic sculptor of the maximum body expression: dance.
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Víctor Manuel Villarreal (1944 – 2019). Mexican artist born in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
Víctor M. Villarreal studied in the National School of Plastic Arts of the San Carlos Academy (Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas de la Academia de San Carlos) of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).
His artistic quality outstood while still being a student and was recognized by his professor the
great sculptor Mr. Ignacio Asúnsulo, who made Víctor M. Villarreal his assistant teacher of the assignment Composition Theory (Teoría de la Composición).
“One movement. The challenge of capturing a
Víctor M. Villarreal
composition with all of its strict laws. An expression. Grace
expressed in a work of art. In all history periods there has
been an artist, an artisan, that felt the need to capture the
beautiful world of dance; the human body in its highest
splendor. I like the human figure; it has always been a
subject of application, its discovery and its study. I like
dance because it is the human body elaborated, grace’s
fifth essence; each perfect position, each movement with
an expression purpose, and I want to express this in
bronze, the ideal material for my necessity of being.”
VICTOR M. VILLARREAL 