Dive into the extensive career of Juan Uslé with 'That Ship on the Mountain,' a detailed exhibition and accompanying publication. This monograph offers a profound look at the internationally recognized Spanish painter's forty years of artistic output. It features over 100 reproduced works and insightful essays that explore the complexity of his abstract art, blending personal history with cinematic influences and sensory experience.
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This publication accompanies the exhibition 'Juan Uslé: That Ship on the Mountain,' dedicated to the forty-year career of the internationally recognized Spanish painter Juan Uslé. The book features over a hundred reproduced works and includes essays exploring the complexity of his art.
The publication 'Juan Uslé. Ese barco en la montaña' is released in conjunction with the homonymous exhibition held at the Museo Reina Sofía, celebrating forty years of work by Juan Uslé, a highly acclaimed Spanish painter on the international stage. This monograph, featuring reproductions of over one hundred works, is the most complete to date. The book contains a series of essays that delve into the intricate nature of Uslé's oeuvre. Ángel Calvo Ulloa, the exhibition's curator, offers a fresh interpretation of the artist's work, drawing connections to personal history, such as the shipwreck of the vessel Elorrio in 1960 (a childhood memory), his move to New York in the 1980s, and the recurring motif of water that permeates his paintings, blending dream and memory. Filmmaker and theorist Érik Bullot examines the influence of cinematic technical devices, like celluloid, light projection, and visual fluidity, on the artist's painting. Meanwhile, philosopher Andrea Soto Calderón proposes a new approach to pictorial abstraction by analyzing Uslé's works from the perspective of sensory experience, positioning his painting as an antithesis to the visual saturation of the contemporary world. The catalog concludes with a selection from an unpublished conversation that Uslé held with critic and poet Kevin Power between 2000 and 2003. The publication is in English.
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