Javier de Juan Spanish, b. 1958
Figure 4, 2019
Oil on wood
61 x 44
Juan's recent work sometimes evokes classical paintings, from the collective imagination, epic battles that could pass for rugby matches, struggles of modern man converted into this irrelevant circular game, stripped...
Juan's recent work sometimes evokes classical paintings, from the collective imagination, epic battles that could pass for rugby matches, struggles of modern man converted into this irrelevant circular game, stripped even of the law of gravity, where the characters seem to fly in circles. Or the case of his reproduction of the three graces of Rubens, where modern women look at each other, but do so through their mobile phones, submerging their identity and human relations in alienating technology.
Exhibitions
In the end it turns out that being alive was about moving
