Juan Fuster - Montañas blandas

Soft Mountains, created in 2008, is part of a broad series in which the artist explores the expressive possibilities of wood as the leading element of the composition. The work is built on a base of MDF and incorporates wide planks of wood, predominantly in red tones, worked together with acrylics. The result is a composition of strong expressionist character, in which matter, relief, and color acquire an especially intense presence.

Despite the power of the reds and the forcefulness of the wooden pieces, the work conveys a notable sensation of luminosity and openness. Light seems to pass through and balance the material intensity of the composition, generating a dialogue between density and lightness, between the strength of gesture and chromatic clarity.

The use of wide woods also adds an almost sculptural dimension to the piece, making the painted surface acquire volume and depth. Sierramar thus represents a personal investigation into the relationship between matter, color, texture, and light, within an expressionist language of great visual energy.

A work with strong plastic presence, especially interesting for collectors who value experimentation with materials and pictorial proposals of a material and expressionist character.

Juan Fuster (Elche, 1968) is an Alicante-born visual artist whose career has developed around pictorial research and the incorporation of contemporary materials into the language of painting. Initially trained in Graphic Design at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios de Alicante, he later expanded his artistic training at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston, where he especially deepened his study of drawing and painting.

From his early stages, Fuster has shown a special interest in matter, surfaces, textures, and the expressive possibilities of materials, progressively shifting painting toward grounds closer to collage, assemblage, and sculpture. Wood occupies a particularly significant place within this investigation.

His work has been described as a meeting point between material painting and sculpture, using woods, objects, and other materials to build surfaces of great visual and physical richness. In exhibitions such as The Air That Wears Us Down (Miguel Hernández University, 2006) the use of structures, wood, and objects to generate compositions characterized by volume, color, textures, and lines was already highlighted.