Alberto Ruiz Villar
BIO
Alberto Ruiz Villar (b. 1970, Barcelona) is a Spanish artist based in Barcelona. Trained in graphic design at L’Escola Massana, he has worked as an art director and photographer and currently teaches Art Direction at IED Barcelona. His practice explores the intersection between structure and instinct, constructing a visual language that maps fear, time, and memory.
Ruiz Villar’s work emerges from a crossing between maps, strata, and scars—three states that reveal the marks of confinement, chance, and continuity. Each composition unfolds as a layered territory where the surface becomes both wound and architecture. His paintings have been exhibited at Rhodes Contemporary Art (London) and The Invisible Line Gallery (London), alongside artists such as Banksy, Damien Hirst, and Nick Smith. His works are represented in private collections across Europe, North America, and the Middle East.
What inspires Alberto?
Ruiz Villar draws inspiration from the passage of time, the emotional architecture of fear and memory, and the fragile balance between order and accident. His use of arches, proportion, and geometric precision reflects an affinity with Ricardo Bofill’s La Fábrica and the metaphysical spaces of Giorgio de Chirico — translating architecture into painting and painting into a map of the self.
ARTWORKS on canvas
This 150 × 150 cm painting by Alberto Ruiz Villar shows the artist working on a larger format than usual. This scale gives space for a more intricate play of Alberto’s conceptual and visual language: the arches, the consistent proportions that appear throughout his work, and a palette that oscillates between mint greens, pastel reds, and tonalities of royal and cadet blues. Together, these elements create a dialogue between architecture, design, and art. His paintings reject finality and always leave space for continuity.
Acrylic /Spray Paint / gesso / graphite on canvas (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Alberto Ruiz Villar 2025
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
This painting by Alberto Ruiz Villar shows a different rhythm than the previous piece. Although it shares the same size — 150 × 150 cm — its composition is based on a five-part grid instead of six. This shift transforms the geometry into a kind of kinetic mechanism, where scars leave a visible trace of movement and the contrasting colors emphasize the junctions between its parts.
Acrylic / Spray Paint / gesso / graphite on canvas (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Alberto Ruiz Villar 2025
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
This composition reveals another side of Alberto Ruiz Villar’s practice. While he maintains his characteristic proportional logic, he alters it through subtle operations: halving certain shapes, doubling others, and shifting their placement within the grid. These variations create a more active rhythm, and the geometry appears almost suspended simply because the entire system begins unusually close to the center of the frame. The work carries a distinct sense of process, an openness that invites the viewer to perceive the construction of the piece, without ever abandoning the structural rigor that defines his practice. It’s not a departure from proportion, but a reconfiguration of it, a way of loosening the system without breaking it.
This new painting by Catalan artist Alberto Ruiz Villar forms part of a series of three large-format works (150 × 150 cm), each exploring rhythm, color, and architectural abstraction through calibrated shifts in scale and proportion.
150 X 150 cm
Acrylic /Spray Paint / gesso / graphite (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Alberto Ruiz Villar 2025
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
Ruiz Villar's work is created around time as the most powerful sign of fear. Maps explained under the effects of scars. Scars as a representation of what we learned from injuries. Their plastic path shows that there is nowhere to go and no rest. The map changes as much as the reality, so there is no peace. And so it must be. Ruiz's work affirms that we should never find certainty.
65 X 81 cm
Acrylic /Spray Paint / gesso / graphite on canvas (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Alberto Ruiz Villar 2025
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
Ruiz Villar's work is created around time as the most powerful sign of fear. Maps explained under the effects of scars. Scars as a representation of what we learned from injuries. Their plastic path shows that there is nowhere to go and no rest. The map changes as much as the reality, so there is no peace. And so it must be. Ruiz's work affirms that we should never find certainty.
100 X 100 cm - Diptych
Acrylic /Spray Paint / gesso / graphite/ on canvas (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Alberto Ruiz Villar 2025
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
Ruiz Villar's work is created around time as the most powerful sign of fear. Maps explained under the effects of scars. Scars as a representation of what we learned from injuries. Their plastic path shows that there is nowhere to go and no rest. The map changes as much as the reality, so there is no peace. And so it must be. Ruiz's work affirms that we should never find certainty.
97 X 131 cm
Acrylic / Spray Paint / gesso / graphite on canvas (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Alberto Ruiz Villar 2022
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
Ruiz Villar's work is created around time as the most powerful sign of fear. Maps explained under the effects of scars. Scars as a representation of what we learned from injuries. Their plastic path shows that there is nowhere to go and no rest. The map changes as much as the reality, so there is no peace. And so it must be. Ruiz's work affirms that we should never find certainty.
81 X 100 cm
Acrylic / Spray Paint / gesso / graphite on canvas (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Alberto Ruiz Villar 2023
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
Ruiz Villar's work is created around time as the most powerful sign of fear. Maps explained under the effects of scars. Scars as a representation of what we learned from injuries. Their plastic path shows that there is nowhere to go and no rest. The map changes as much as the reality, so there is no peace. And so it must be. Ruiz's work affirms that we should never find certainty.
50 X 61 cm
Acrylic /Spray Paint / gesso / graphite
Acrylic on wood (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Alberto Ruiz Villar 2022
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
Ruiz Villar's work is created around time as the most powerful sign of fear. Maps explained under the effects of scars. Scars as a representation of what we learned from injuries. Their plastic path shows that there is nowhere to go and no rest. The map changes as much as the reality, so there is no peace. And so it must be. Ruiz's work affirms that we should never find certainty.
22 X 27 cm
Acrylic / Spray Paint / gesso / graphite on canvas (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Alberto Ruiz Villar 2024
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
Ruiz Villar's work is created around time as the most powerful sign of fear. Maps explained under the effects of scars. Scars as a representation of what we learned from injuries. Their plastic path shows that there is nowhere to go and no rest. The map changes as much as the reality, so there is no peace. And so it must be. Ruiz's work affirms that we should never find certainty.
27 X 35 cm
Acrylic on canvas(Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Alberto Ruiz Villar 2022
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
This is the second painting inspired by Ricardo Bofill’s La Fábrica, and like the entire series, it marks a beautiful timeline and trajectory of an idea. From Giorgio de Chirico’s paintings to Ricardo’s buildings, and back to Alberto’s artworks, art and ideas are a hereditary trait—a transcendent aspect of creative minds. This painting focuses on the colors from both Ricardo’s and Giorgio’s visualizations, reminiscent of a renaissance of ideas
38 X 46 cm
Acrylic / Spray Paint / gesso / graphite on canvas (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Alberto Ruiz Villar 2022
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
Ruiz Villar's work is created around time as the most powerful sign of fear. Maps explained under the effects of scars. Scars as a representation of what we learned from injuries. Their plastic path shows that there is nowhere to go and no rest. The map changes as much as the reality, so there is no peace. And so it must be. Ruiz's work affirms that we should never find certainty.
55 X 38 cm
Acrylic /Spray Paint / gesso / graphite on canvas (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Alberto Ruiz Villar 2020
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
This painting by Alberto Ruiz, part of the Matiz Gallery autumn exhibition, features an irregular light pink pentagon juxtaposed with contrasting geometric forms. The interplay of red, pink, blue, green, and white creates a “functional” composition. The texture, created by scarring the canvas surface, adds a sense of dramatization to the piece.
46 X 55 cm
Acrylic / Spray Paint / gesso / graphite on canvas (Prices excl. VAT)
The work is done with acrylic, spray paint, gesso, and graphite on canvas. (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Alberto Ruiz Villar 2022
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
Ruiz Villar's work is created around time as the most powerful sign of fear. Maps explained under the effects of scars. Scars as a representation of what we learned from injuries. Their plastic path shows that there is nowhere to go and no rest. The map changes as much as the reality, so there is no peace. And so it must be. Ruiz's work affirms that we should never find certainty.
97 X 131 cm
Acrylic /Spray Paint / gesso / graphite on canvas (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Alberto Ruiz Villar 2022
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
Ruiz Villar's work is created around time as the most powerful sign of fear. Maps explained under the effects of scars. Scars as a representation of what we learned from injuries. Their plastic path shows that there is nowhere to go and no rest. The map changes as much as the reality, so there is no peace. And so it must be. Ruiz's work affirms that we should never find certainty.
50 X 65 cm
Acrylic /Spray Paint / gesso / graphite on wood (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Alberto Ruiz Villar 2023
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
Ruiz Villar's work is created around time as the most powerful sign of fear. Maps explained under the effects of scars. Scars as a representation of what we learned from injuries. Their plastic path shows that there is nowhere to go and no rest. The map changes as much as the reality, so there is no peace. And so it must be. Ruiz's work affirms that we should never find certainty.
100 X 81 cm
Acrylic /Spray Paint / gesso / graphite on wood (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Alberto Ruiz Villar 2022
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
Ruiz Villar's work is created around time as the most powerful sign of fear. Maps explained under the effects of scars. Scars as a representation of what we learned from injuries. Their plastic path shows that there is nowhere to go and no rest. The map changes as much as the reality, so there is no peace. And so it must be. Ruiz's work affirms that we should never find certainty.
54,5 X 65,5 cm
Acrylic /Spray Paint / gesso / graphite on canvas (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Alberto Ruiz Villar 2021
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
Ruiz Villar's work is created around time as the most powerful sign of fear. Maps explained under the effects of scars. Scars as a representation of what we learned from injuries. Their plastic path shows that there is nowhere to go and no rest. The map changes as much as the reality, so there is no peace. And so it must be. Ruiz's work affirms that we should never find certainty.
154 X 106 cm
Acrylic /Spray Paint / gesso / graphite on wood (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Alberto Ruiz Villar 2014
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
This is the first of three pieces that Alberto Ruiz Villar dedicated to the talented and late architect, designer, and artist Ricardo Bofill. In line with Bofill's rejection of the idea that "form follows function," Alberto's art allows rough elements and scars to flourish in his compositions. He seeks to sculpt with different materials, using artistic agility to produce forms and shapes that embrace imperfections and roughness, highlighting and contrasting beauty and proportionality. Just as a well-adapted space can accommodate any use, any rough and imperfect material can house a beautiful work of art.
46 X 55 cm
Acrylic /Spray Paint / gesso / graphite on canvas. (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Alberto Ruiz Villar 2024
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
Ruiz Villar's work is created around time as the most powerful sign of fear. Maps explained under the effects of scars. Scars as a representation of what we learned from injuries. Their plastic path shows that there is nowhere to go and no rest. The map changes as much as the reality, so there is no peace. And so it must be. Ruiz's work affirms that we should never find certainty.
22 X 27 cm
Acrylic / Spray Paint / gesso / graphite on canvas (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Alberto Ruiz Villar 2024
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
Ruiz Villar's work is created around time as the most powerful sign of fear. Maps explained under the effects of scars. Scars as a representation of what we learned from injuries. Their plastic path shows that there is nowhere to go and no rest. The map changes as much as the reality, so there is no peace. And so it must be. Ruiz's work affirms that we should never find certainty.
22 X 33 cm
Acrylic /Spray Paint / gesso / graphite on wood (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Alberto Ruiz Villar 2022
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
This is the third piece inspired by Ricardo Bofill's La Fábrica in Barcelona. Alberto is an interdisciplinary artist—painter, designer, and writer. Conceptually, his paintings carry meanings private to the artist, making the act of creation a deeply personal yet open expression. In this series, the arches serve as a recurring motif: this third piece features three main arches, the second piece two, and the first piece four, creating a subtle progression that ties the works together. The colors depict light and shadow, emphasizing the different planes within this abstract composition.
38 X 46 cm
Acrylic / Spray Paint / gesso / graphite on canvas (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Alberto Ruiz Villar 2022
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
Ruiz Villar's work is created around time as the most powerful sign of fear. Maps explained under the effects of scars. Scars as a representation of what we learned from injuries. Their plastic path shows that there is nowhere to go and no rest. The map changes as much as the reality, so there is no peace. And so it must be. Ruiz's work affirms that we should never find certainty.
65 X 54 cm
Acrylic /Spray Paint / gesso / graphite on wood (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Alberto Ruiz Villar 2019