‘Tangible and intangible’
The tangibility of the intangible is the title of the text that Don Francisco Calvo Serraller (1948-2018) wrote for the exhibition that Galería Freijo presented by Darío Villalba (1939-2018) for the OFF festival of PHotoEspaña in 2014. Seven years later, Galería Freijo presents the second solo exhibition of Darío Villalba, which brings together icons, which are fundamental images in his work.
Accompanying these works with the texts of Francisco Calvo Serraller is not only a tribute, it is also a way of bringing together keys that are and have been fundamental to understanding Darío Villalba's work. Both, inseparable friends, accomplices in creative work, decided to leave in the same year 2018. In this exhibition we present works made on various media, in which photographic images take on presences decontextualized from their own reality. Chrysalises, encapsulations, canvases, papers, photographs, basic documents... coexist to give life to images that Darío turned into iconic images, images of characters who are no longer among us, but who have become faces, known to all of us who approach Darío's work.