He was born in 1927, he is from Ambato. He used raw earthen materials such us clay and natural pigments to paint on walls and doors of his city.
At sixteen years old he was teaching drawing in different schools and his name as a painter became famous, so the mayor of his city requested Villacís to do an exposition of his work in the flowers and fruits parties.
In 1952, José Maria Velasco Ibarra president of Ecuador saw the painting of Anibal; he was impressed and offered him a schoolship to study in Paris.
After living in Paris for almost one year, Villacís never got accustomed to the language, so he wrote to the Ecuadorian Minister of Education requesting to transfer his studies to Madrid.
Villacís felt more comfortable in Spain and he lived there for six years. While living in Madrid, Villacís was introduced to the Informalist Movement, specifically: Antony Tapies, Antonio Saura and Modest Cuixart, who quickly began to influence his work.
Anibal Villacís was a co-founder of VAN, the group of Informalist painters that was founded by Enrique Tábara, other members of VAN are: Estuardo Maldonado, Hugo Cifuentes, Luis Molinari and Gilberto Almeida.
Villacís is mostly well known for his series called, Filigranas, which he started in the early sixties. The Filigranas series were typically mixed technique on wood or canvas with the addition of any combination of the following materials: marble dust, sand, metal, plaster, paint and gold.
Villacís in his paint, gives many scrape of different colours, giving the impression of an ancient sacred relic that has aged with time.
At sixteen years old he was teaching drawing in different schools and his name as a painter became famous, so the mayor of his city requested Villacís to do an exposition of his work in the flowers and fruits parties.
In 1952, José Maria Velasco Ibarra president of Ecuador saw the painting of Anibal; he was impressed and offered him a schoolship to study in Paris.
After living in Paris for almost one year, Villacís never got accustomed to the language, so he wrote to the Ecuadorian Minister of Education requesting to transfer his studies to Madrid.
Villacís felt more comfortable in Spain and he lived there for six years. While living in Madrid, Villacís was introduced to the Informalist Movement, specifically: Antony Tapies, Antonio Saura and Modest Cuixart, who quickly began to influence his work.
Anibal Villacís was a co-founder of VAN, the group of Informalist painters that was founded by Enrique Tábara, other members of VAN are: Estuardo Maldonado, Hugo Cifuentes, Luis Molinari and Gilberto Almeida.
Villacís is mostly well known for his series called, Filigranas, which he started in the early sixties. The Filigranas series were typically mixed technique on wood or canvas with the addition of any combination of the following materials: marble dust, sand, metal, plaster, paint and gold.
Villacís in his paint, gives many scrape of different colours, giving the impression of an ancient sacred relic that has aged with time.
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