The Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid has opened a major retrospective of Spanish painter Juan Uslé, titled "That Ship on the Mountain." The exhibition features approximately 100 works spanning four decades, tracing the artist's journey from his childhood in Cantabria to his established career in New York City. It notably uses the traumatic shipwreck of the Elorrio, which Uslé witnessed as a boy, as its conceptual starting point.
The retrospective is significant as it marks Uslé's second solo show at the prestigious Reina Sofía, a rare honor for a living Spanish artist. The exhibition provides a comprehensive view of his abstract practice, revealing how personal memory, trauma, and his transatlantic life between Spain and New York have fundamentally shaped his distinctive, rhythmic, and color-saturated paintings. It solidifies his position as a leading figure in Spanish abstraction.