Juan de la Rica (1979 - Saltadora

Juan de la Rica
Saltadora, 2022
12‑color screen print
Edition 30
Dimensions 50 x 70 cm
signed and numbered on the front
excellent condition

“I like to say that the subject is nothing more than a MacGuffin, to use Hitchcock’s language, a plot excuse for the painting to advance.” Every motif can motivate the technically brilliant Spanish painter Juan de la Rica to new works—as in Hitchcock’s films, any person, any incidental object can drive the plot forward. De la Rica’s fascination with the “Saltadora,” which can be read from his signed, nine‑color screen print from 2022, thus does not go back to the jumper/saltator per se, but to the challenge of making this figure entirely his own. The high recognizability of his works is due to a strong sense of form and great expressiveness. The works, at first glance, seem to be out of their time: the 20th century echoes here—and yet contemporary times are wonderfully inscribed into them as well.

Juan de la Rica (born 1979 in Bilbao) earned a BFA in 2007 from the University of the Basque Country. Since then his works have been shown in numerous national and international solo and group exhibitions.