JUAN USLÉ (Santander, 1954). "They're coming", 2005. Mixed technique on canvas and board. Signed, dated and titled.

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  JUAN USLÉ (Santander, 1954). "They're coming", 2005. Mixed technique on canvas and board. Work reproduced in Switch on / switch off CAC Málaga (2007-08) pp. 89-90. Presents the Frith Street Gallery label (London). Signed, dated and titled. Measures: 46 x 61 cm; 70 x 86 cm (frame). In this work Uslé proposes to the spectator a contrast between opposites that he exercises both through forms and chromatic tonalities. To this end, he builds a composition where superimposed languages come together. The vertical lines are composed of other horizontal lines, which sometimes present rectangular interjections of black, which fragment the established rhythm. This work belongs to a mature period of his American stage, in which his colors are transformed and his pictorial technique becomes more varied. He paints lines, floating forms, intense colors, wavy backgrounds and multicolored stripes. He builds complex baroque designs and grids painted with different colors under swirling lines. Uslé's refusal to define himself, in short, to pigeonhole himself, is particularly important at this time. Nevertheless, it is inevitable to place him in a context, both Spanish and international, where his work takes shape. It is indispensable to see that he takes the grids of Mondrian's neoplasticism, Reinhardt's black color, the strength of the brushstroke of the late Kooning, Newman's zips or Picabia's machinist paintings; according to the artist himself, disorder in space is something essential in his work. Also important are the visual calm he learned from the film "8 ½" by Fellini, and the fantastic imaginary of the Jules Verne novels he read in his youth. In fact, Uslé conceives his painting as a journey without a destination, whose goal is at the disposal of the painting itself, endowing the work with a complete autonomy indissolubly linked to abstraction. An artist based in New York and Saro (Cantabria), he has collaborated with the Soledad Lorenzo gallery in Madrid since 1993. Juan Uslé studied Fine Arts at the Escuela Superior de San Carlos (Valencia, 1973-77), later extending his studies with the Scholarship for Young Artists (1980) and the one dedicated to the Research of New Expressive Forms (1982), both from the Ministry of Culture. In 1984 he participated for the first time in the Arco fair, and two years later he moved to New York with his partner, the artist Victoria Civera. In 1992 he took part in the Documenta in Kassel, and in 1996 the IVAM dedicated his first retrospective exhibition to him, a recognition that was followed in 2002 by the National Prize for Plastic Arts. Throughout his career, Uslé has held exhibitions in prominent museums and galleries such as the MACBA, the Saatchi in London, the Serralves Museum, the Es Baluard in Palma, the Ludwig in Vienna or the New MoMA in New York, although it is worth mentioning for its importance his anthology "Open Rooms", presented in 2003 at the Palacio de Velázquez in Madrid, the Marcelino Botín Foundation in Santander, the S.M.A.K. Museum in Ghent and the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. Juan Uslé is currently represented in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Guggenheim in Bilbao, the Es Baluard in Palma, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Saatchi Collection, the Fonds National d'Art Contemporain in Paris, the Marugame Hirai Museum in Japan and the Tate Modern in London, among other collections.
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