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 device for the painting to advance.” Every motif can motivate the technically brilliant Spanish painter Juan de la Rica to new works – just as in Hitchcock’s films any person, an incidental object, can drive the plot forward. De la Rica’s fascination with the “Saltadora,” which can be read in his signed, nine-color screen print from 2022, does not stem from the jumper itself, but from the challenge of making this figure entirely his own artistically. The high recognizability of his works is due to a strong formal will and great expressiveness. The works, at first glance, seem out of time: the 20th century echoes here—and yet they are wonderfully inscribed with the present moment.
Juan de la Rica (born 1979 in Bilbao) completed a BFA in 2007 at the University of the Basque Country. Since then, his works have been shown in numerous national and international solo and group exhibitions.