Layers

We now see that the career of Uslé, a painter and eloquent craftsman, emotional and sensitive and with a romantic background, has been governed by a will for containment, although none of the steps that he has taken in this direction have caused him to lose intensity, but rather to the contrary. That is his great strength. This picture was painted during a critical moment of his latest transition which, moreover, coincided with his settling in New York – a transition that made him “objectualise”, rather than “objectify” painting. At the same time he fragmented it in serial form, although his series never concluded in modular construction. In a way, each fragment of his compositions functions like a hole of intense, implosive energies, through which daily life escapes. But these Layers, which seem to refer to the strict ease of the technical procedure, are unable to dissimulate their nature of melancholy landscape. That is what Juan Uslé is like, for the moment.