Bringing together sixteen paintings alongside a selection of works on paper, the exhibition establishes a dialogue between surface and structure, gesture and restraint. Many of the drawings began as preparatory studies for the canvases, linking the immediate intimacy of the studio to the resolved compositions.
Continuing Juan's sustained investigation into pictorial composition, these works explore the spatial and relational dynamics of the body—how form can define, distort, or dissolve a figure’s presence within its frame. Proportions are stretched and compressed, planes are collapsed and reassembled, and the pictorial field becomes a site where connection and dissonance coexist.
Rendered in synthetic shapes and bold chromatic contrasts, the paintings oscillate between abstraction and representation, recalling the playful precision of postmodern figuration and the visual language of pop sensibility. Beneath their surface vibrancy lies a quiet instability—a sense that harmony hovers on the verge of rupture.
Kilde: Albert Contemporary
