Opening reception: Thursday, May 15, 2025, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Galerie Lelong, New York, is pleased to announce an upcoming solo exhibition by Juan Uslé, CIEN DIAS DE ABRIL, the artist's second with the gallery. The exhibition will present new paintings through which the artist advances his exploration of rhythmic abstraction, creating compositions that register the passage of time and invoke a sense of place, producing works that are at once deeply personal and universally resonant. This exhibition will be followed in October 2025 by a major retrospective at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain.
Uslé's distinctive approach centers on rhythmic, short brushstrokes arranged in bands of shimmering color. By shifting between opaque and transparent passages, he generates a dynamic sense of movement across the surface. Beyond their formal qualities, the titles of his works—such as Breathing Earth, Partitura urbana [Urban Score], 21 días de abril [21 Days of April], and Transitum [Transition]—offer insight into the poetic and conceptual undercurrents of his practice. For Uslé, painting becomes a vessel for sensorial experience and memory, with each work serving as a container of lived time that can be both past present and future, expressed clearly in the mysterious title, CIEN DIAS DE ABRIL.