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...Óscar Villalón is a distinctive realist painter who is exceptional because of the sobriety and elegance of his ideas. The texture, strokes and colour he uses in his work create a harmonious set in which the strong link between light, shape and space show the artist’s desire to invent and discover new things about what is known, to explore afresh what has already been examined, bringing to light things that went previously unseen by others. This way of painting also gives new life to the actual practice of painting and far from taking a maximalist or gloomy stand, it proclaims that realist painting and especially Spanish realism is very much alive and kicking...