TEMPORAL EXHIBITION

The first series, titled Lichen, consists of a total of 8 paintings on paper measuring 24 x 50 cm. These works not only explore the delicacy and resilience of lichens, recurring elements in Juan Gopar’s artistic language, but also address the challenge they represent for his artistic practice.

For the artist, lichens are not only a motif but a creative problem: how to represent something that lacks a coherent form? How to translate the experience of walking on the volcano into art? Through a rich and detailed color palette, Gopar faces these questions, transforming each piece into an abstraction that reflects both the natural environment and the cycles of life and regeneration that lichens symbolize.

In this series, the artistic process becomes a dialogue between the concrete and the ethereal, an attempt to capture the essence of the indefinable and give form to the inherent chaos of volcanic nature.

The second series, consisting of 6 works on paper measuring 24 x 50 cm, focuses on a play of contrasts and harmonies. Through overlapping layers of color and texture, Gopar creates compositions that suggest an internal dialogue, a fragmented conversation between the abstract and the concrete.

In these works, the artist invites us to explore his Notebook of Shore Walks, where puddles of water, shaped by tides and nestled among the rocks, become protagonists. For Gopar, these small fragments of the world contain all the mysteries: in them, light, shapes, and colors condense an emotion, an instant that transcends the everyday to become something universal.

With this series, the artist moves away from direct reference to nature to explore a more introspective language, where gesture and stain acquire a unique protagonism. Each piece seems to narrate a distinct episode from his walks, while simultaneously integrating into the overall discourse of the series, revealing truths that only painting can capture.

The final series, titled Encounters, consists of 4 paintings on paper (35.5 x 50 cm). In these works, Juan Gopar delves into the essence of painting as an act of discovery and exploration. For the artist, painting does not seek, it finds. It is a process that moves away from predefined intentions, programs, or styles, and embraces risk, chance, and an openness to the unknown.

With a loose and expressive stroke, these pieces evoke imaginary landscapes that vibrate between the earthly and the ethereal. Each work is constructed from action and emotion, discovering what was hidden to give it form and make it visible.

The “Encounters” series presents itself as a poetic culmination of the journey begun in the previous series. It is a meaningful closure, resonating with the very essence of Gopar’s art: the pure emotion of discovery and the unbreakable connection between the human being and their environment.