“… The works that make up this exhibition are the fruit (not only) from years of constant experiences and reflections on painting and its deconstruction. Its radical simplicity, at the antipodes of self-absorption, critically confronts us with the overabundance of information, irrelevant free, of overflowing images that roam freely. In the works of Juan Sánchez there is no more or less romantic commitment to revisiting the past., for returning arts to crafts, nor for promoting crafts to the arts. Your bet plays directly with the materials, with the structures, with the basic tools of the most basic construction, -compass, plumb, canvas- and of the trade in some of its meanings - habitual occupation, skill achieved in the practice of a profession, even those related to the sacred-. Oscar Wilde sentence: Not only in art. the form is the soul. And it is precisely in that inseparable complex nature of the work of art where Juan Sánchez puts his finger - and his entire hand- in that wound that never fails to show that the body - any body- It's not just matter, but also structure. texture. color. form and time”.
Juan Bautista Peiró
Polytechnic University of Valencia
