Juan Uslé (1954) - Notas sobre SQR

Lithography and screen printing by Juan Uslé (*).
Title: Notes on SQR
The series to which this work belongs was published under a highly ambitious international project collectively titled “Europe-Edition” and managed by the prestigious Portfolio Kunst A.G. of Vienna in the late 1990s and early 2000s, with the aim of bringing together the great figures of abstraction across the continent.
Acid-free high‑grade cotton Gvarro paper support, with its characteristic watermark.
Exclusive edition of 60 copies.
Signed and numbered by hand by the artist 42/60.
Large format.
Includes Certificate of Authenticity (COA).

Specifications:

Support dimensions: 100 x 70 cm
Stamp/footprint dimensions: 50 x 35.5 cm
Justification 42/60
Year: 1998
Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, and has always been kept in a professional art folder, therefore offered in perfect condition).
Provenance: Private Collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be shipped with tracking number.

The shipment will also include transportation insurance for the final value of the work with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer.

(*) From a young age, Uslé showed a great interest in art. He studied at the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos in Valencia, where he graduated in 1977. During his early years as an artist he worked mainly with figurative drawings and paintings, although in the mid-1980s he began to experiment with abstractions. Inspired by music and literature, his works often combine organic and geometric shapes in layers of vibrant color.
At the beginning of the 1990s he moved to New York, where his style evolved toward a more fluid and gestural abstraction, through loose brushstrokes and dynamic compositions.
In 1997 he began the series entitled Soñé que revelabas, which has given rise to a good number of large-format vertical works in which Uslé, like many other artists throughout history, launches a variation on a single theme in which he plays very skillfully with color combinations. As the artist explains: “Painting these paintings is like filling the world with silence, from emptiness, to also give meaning to at least one space, a space large enough and generous, chosen for that purpose. It’s like a cleaning exercise, a search for emptiness, starting from a biological point of reference. Perhaps I proceed this way because our vision is too impure and sometimes images torment us. We are so overloaded with images that we breathe and live, increasingly, within a kind of neuronal Times Square.”
Uslé maintains a strong bond with his homeland, to which he returns frequently to work in his studio in Saro, a small village in the Cantabrian mountains. Throughout his career he has continued to explore new techniques and forms of expression in his art, remaining faithful to his unique vision, but always evolving.
Among the numerous awards and recognitions he has received, the 2014 National Prize for Plastic Arts of Spain stands out.