The Weight of Emptiness: Jose Juan Botella - Black Room
Exploring the relationship between sculpture and drawing from an expanded perspective. Through the subtraction of material, Juan José Botella transforms marble and alabaster into delicate three-dimensional lines, where emptiness becomes more important than the stone itself.
His work exists at the threshold between the material and the ethereal, blurring the boundaries between form and absence. Inspired by the tradition of expanded drawing, explored by artists such as Julio González and Alexander Calder, Botella turns sculpture into a suspended line in space, where light and shadow complete the work.
Each piece reflects on fragility and impermanence, searching for sculpture beyond its weight and materiality. With The Weight of Emptiness, the artist invites us to contemplate the balance between what remains and what disappears.
