Juan Suarez Blanco and his new production in quarantine

The quarantine period has been fruitful for painter and sculptor Juan Suarez Blanco. In his studio in Pinar del Rio, new works have taken diverse expressions and contents, most of them inspired by the pandemic and its aftermath in the world. Much will be said about the current stage so complex for humanity. Art, as an expression of life itself, has reflected since the beginning of the epidemic who we are and the history that befalls us.

"It rains on the fault", in the words of Suarez Blanco, is an abstract and minimalist work. The shape of the virus appears in the piece through the colors red and blue, which completely define the tonality of the painting, where the angles predominate and with it, the possibility of appreciating several perspectives.

The painting aims to approach the viewer without fear because of its position. It reaches our gaze with determination and pictorial strength, in addition to its evident depth and the sensation of movement it provokes.

The contrast of the colors used, as well as the textures in "It rains on the fault" is an intention marked by the creator to capture the attention to the maximum, with simple and basic forms, of easy compression for the majorities.

"I have tried to reproduce the coronavirus, but very abstract. It falls on a fault zone, which suggests tectonic faults, but in itself, they are the faults and ecological imbalances of the planet. All that falls and spreads. The work has that spirit," the artist assures Maxima.

Similarly, Juan Suarez Blanco captured, in large canvases, the loneliness and physical isolation prevailing today. We are talking about the pieces "La nube azul", "La nube rosa" and "Paralelo 22", made in pastel colors, with great technical finish and an evident sensation of three-dimensionality, in specific places of the landscapes. Therein lies part of its beauty: the author chooses with precision the areas where volume must predominate as an attraction and visual hook.

About his intention, the professor comments: "They have to do with desolate ports, silence, the whole world enclosed. I use very tender and hopeful colors. I still keep the history of relief, but very lightly".

Other paintings also emerged as part of his creative ethos and this is how Suarez Blanco explains them: "Then came Erosión VII, a work I had pending. It is an entry of a red angle from above on an eroded piece of metal, which is mutating. There are areas that come towards the viewer aggressively and let us see that cutting metallic area. It is the last work in the Erosion series. I also have another piece, The Tempest, still in the process of completion," adds the creator.

A tribute to Piet Mondrian increases Suarez Blanco's production in times of confinement. The work is called "Yellow scorpion" and from the artist's point of view, its figuration is soothing and very spiritual, allegorical to the work of the Dutch painter.

Let us remember the presence of balance, primary colors, lines and geometric shapes in Mondrian as a basic principle. In this regard, the artist adds: "the piece has a very geometrical structure, with a predominance of the horizontal and some verticals".

"Yellow scorpion" fascinates from beginning to end for being unique in itself, as a testimony of what Mondrian still means to the world. Renewing visions of the founder of neoplasticism come this time under the pulsations of Juan Suarez, who manages to conquer us with his landscapes and enigmatic abstractions. As a future project, the artist plans to exhibit the works in an exhibition entitled "Counterpoint, second time".