Juan Uslé

Juan Uslé born in 1954 in Santander (Spain). He lives and works between Benissa (Spain) and New York (USA).

Juan Uslé's works are interactions of lines and colours that enclose and incorporate in themselves a great variety of historical-artistic references, pictorial languages, as well as sensory and mental impressions. Paint itself is also an important element of research, as a language and instrument.

The artist creates a formal comparison between the different media used, identifying, however, in the plaster, arranged in layers on the preparation of the canvas, the element that will always be readable in every phase of the painting. The evelasting and in some way always decipherable presence of this material also becomes a symbol of wider philosophical resonance: the beginning is present and coexists with the end, the painting is a self-sufficient entity, a complete object not only in its four sides, but also in the vertical stratification of its surface.

The pictorial process consists of a natural harmony between the manual act and the intellectual choices behind every artistic action. Movement, or rather, displacement, is a key and recurring theme in his work. In Juan Uslé's artistic research we can read a constant dichotomy between opposite and complementary elements at the same time: order and chaos, presence and absence, two-dimensionality and depth. Most of his works are juxtapositions of areas of colour and lines that seem to come and go as if they were fragments of a more complex story.

His paintings lead the viewer into a labyrinthine space, we can read a further dichotomy between the precise articulation of Uslé which seems to indicate a specific direction while, paradoxically, it also leaves the way open for the viewer's free interpretation.