Jerónimo Villa

Jerónimo Villa has developed a conceptually rooted practice to create work that highlights the frivolity of function by repurposing items to challenge inherent purpose. Refuting the status of obsolete, Villa collects specific, utilitarian materials that juxtapose each other in nature to construct refined geometric artworks transforming their original form entirely.
Born with a sculptor as a father and a fashion designer as a mother, his fascination with the materiality of objects sprouted early in life by witnessing the transformation of materials firsthand from raw to refined. This translates in the aesthetic of his work, as he holds a key understanding of how treatment of materials can change how they will exist, or cease to do so, in perpetuity.
Villa trained as a musician at the University of Los Andes (2008), later translating his knack for rhythm and composition to the visual arts and began using experimental materials to collapse a variety of art historical styles and forms.