Juan Escudero

Juan Escudero (Spain,1966) holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country, where he specialized in painting. His artistic practice is primarily centered on drawing, to which he returned around 2007 after settling in Barcelona in 1999, and intaglio printmaking, a technique he began exploring in 2011 and to which he has devoted himself fully since 2017.

His work focuses on setting a process in motion rather than on formal representation. His technique is based on a system in which every mark remains visible and no corrections are made. During the execution of a work, which he conceives as a form of automatic writing, musical improvisation, or lucid passage through the present, the first line anticipates the next and carries each irregularity forward. Through this method, forms emerge that subsequently connect with patterns found in nature, evoking surfaces, textiles, fluids, topographies, and waves.

In recognition of his work in printmaking, he has received several awards since 2018, including the Pilar Juncosa Biennial Printmaking Award, presented by the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca.

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