Sin Fecha de Vencimiento
GoMA
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“Sin Fecha de Vencimiento” invites viewers to immerse themselves in the artistic universe of Juan Carlos Sánchez Lezcano, where reality is fragmented into recurring dreams, complaints and exaggerated fears, acquiring an unmistakable form. Repetition and transformation act as guiding threads in this space, unfolding as a continuous conversation between the personal and the collective, the lived and the imagined.
Juan Carlos is a visual storyteller who is not afraid to exaggerate, forcing reality to show its rawest colors and dimensions. His images, at once familiar and distant, build a poetics of unease, maintaining a constant dialogue with repetition as epiphora, creating a persistent echo in his creative space. Each piece becomes a portal to what we have already seen, but never ceases to surprise us.
In “Sin Fecha de Vencimiento”, Juan reflects on temporality, exploring the sensation of living in a time that never runs out. The exhibition raises profound questions: What happens when we do not find a date that marks the end of something? How do we deal with the accumulation of memories and experiences without a place to drain them? These questions underlie each work, presenting a perpetual search and an endless wait where the important thing is not to win, but to survive time.
The works range from migration issues to emotional wounds, demonstrating the power of the image to tell stories that persist and confront us with our essence, our past and our uncertain future.
Desiderio Borroto Fernández, art critic and curator, comments:
“Juan Carlos Sánchez Lezcano, also known as El Chino Lezcano, defies all boundaries between physical and mental space. His work presents profound metaphors that evoke nostalgia, courage and the risk of emigration, recurring themes in his career. He uses conceptualist texts and vibrant colors to transform the exhibition space, creating a unique atmosphere where each image invites a profound reflection on temporality and identity.”
Manuel Hurtado López, playwright and art critic, comments Part I:
Juan's work inhabits a space where reality is fragmented into recurring dreams, complaints and exaggerated fears until it acquires an unmistakable form. Repetition and transformation are the guiding threads in an artistic universe that unfolds as a continuous conversation between the personal and the collective, the lived and the imagined.
Manuel Hurtado López, playwright and art critic, comments Part II:
Juan is a visual storyteller who is not afraid to exaggerate, forcing reality to show its rawest colors and dimensions. These images, as familiar as they are distant, build a poetics of uneasiness, a continuous dialogue with repetition as epiphora, a sort of persistent echo in the creative space.
Manuel Hurtado López, playwright and art critic, comments Part III:
These dreams, without location or order, escape the conscious control of the artist, but are shown with a precision that only the years can achieve. Each piece thus becomes a portal to what we have already seen, but which will never cease to surprise us.
Manuel Hurtado López, playwright and art critic, comments Part IV:
Juan paints with what he has at hand, as he himself says, with whatever brushes are available, but his colors are always vibrant, almost like focal points that catch the eye and do not allow the gaze to wander. Here, the stain, far from being an accident, is the soul of his technique, it becomes a defense, a cry that is also a cry. In the artist's words, 'I have been crying since I was born', and that cry, repeated and multiplied, overflows in each stroke, in each shadow.
Manuel Hurtado López, playwright and art critic, comments Part V:
No expiration date' is a reflection on temporality. It is not about the expiration of objects or experiences, but about that constant sensation of living a time that never ends. What happens when we do not find that date that marks the end of something? What happens when we keep accumulating folders and memories without having a place to drain them? This is the question that underlies his pieces: a perpetual search, an endless wait in which the important thing is not to win, but to survive time.
Manuel Hurtado López, playwright and art critic, comments Part VI:
With a conceptual charge that ranges from migration to emotional wounds, Juan's works in this exhibition are a testimony to the power of the image to tell stories that do not expire, that persist and confront us with what we are, what we have been, and what we may never become.
