• Galerie Lelong is pleased to announce that a major retrospective by Juan Uslé, Ese barco en la montaña [That Ship on the Mountain], is now on view at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, Spain. 

    The exhibition, installed across ten rooms of the Nouvel Building, is arranged in the form of a non-chronological short story: a narrative constructed through comings and goings, prospection and retroaction, and a subtle nod to the connections his paintings make with other media. Whatever their manifestation, the importance of the images and stories contained in Uslé's paintings lies in the subconscious links they make with the visible world and the possibilities for imagining other scenarios, wherein abstract language is linked to the representation of images that are either thought, imagined, seen or dreamed.

    Ese barco en la montaña coincides with the twenty-year anniversary of Uslé's first solo exhibition at the Museo Reina Sofía, entitled Rooms 

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  • Installation view: Juan Uslé. Ese barco en la montaña, 2025. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Archivo Museo Reina Sofía.

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