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Rodolfo Villaplana is a Venezuelan painter who lives and works in London. After graduating in 2013 with an MA in Fine Art from the Chelsea College of Arts he was endorsed by the Young Masters panel. 2015 he participated in the Venice Biennale. Villaplana was chosen to represent the UK in the Iranian Biennale of Art and exhibited together with Tamara Kvesitadze at a group exhibition represented by the Galerie Kornfeld. In 2015 had his first major solo exhibition titled "Duchamp is Dead" at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in Tbilisi. Villaplana is best known for his portraits often containing motives of nudity, still life of flowers and several large scale paintings, such as his works "Surprise at Pimlico" or "Ratzinger Revisted". He draws his inspiration from Neo-Expressionism and artist such as Lucien Freud and Francis Bacon.