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Juan Uslé

JUAN USLÉ

Notas Galerie Lelong 19 March–7 May 2026 13 Rue de Téhéran, Paris
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Galerie Lelong is pleased to present an exhibition devoted to Juan Uslé’s drawings at the bookshop. This presentation follows on from “Un viaje paralelo”, an exhibition at the Torre de Don Borja in Santillana del Mar, where more than two hundred small-format works revealed a more intimate dimension of the artist’s practice: that of the “Notas”. These notes, kinds of visual fragment that have accompanied his artistic process for more than thirty-five years, give rise to the rhythms, intuitions and lights that permeate all of his paintings.

Through repetition and variation, each page covered with ink, graphite or watercolour becomes a space for breathing and poetic intensity. Created at night in New York or in the silence of his studios in Saro, near Santander, these drawings deepen the connection between the artist and the landscapes that surround him. They bear witness to the inner listening that characterises his entire body of work: a world in which abstraction and figuration rub shoulders, horizons vibrate, colours appear and then disappear. The exhibition is accompanied by a recent publication by La Fábrica, which brings together a significant collection of these works on paper and highlights their fundamental role in Juan Uslé’s creative process.

Born in 1954 in Santander, Spain, Juan Uslé is a leading contemporary painter. He is currently the subject of a retrospective at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, which runs until April 20th, 2026. Juan Uslé’s work is featured in numerous collections, including the Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Colección Fundación “la Caixa,” Barcelona; the IMMA, Dublin; the MACBA, Barcelona; the MNAM – Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Musée d’Art Contemporain du Luxembourg; the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao; the Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid; the Serralves Museum, Porto; the SMAK, Ghent; and the Tate Modern, London. In 2021, Galerie Lelong published a collection of interviews in French, La peinture dans son temps.

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About the Artist

Juan Uslé was born in 1954 in Santander, Spain. He lives and works between Saro (Cantabria) and New York City. He studied fine art at Escuela Superior de Belles Artes in San Carlos, Valencia from 1973–77.

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About the Gallery
Galerie Lelong is located in Paris and New York. It was founded by Jacques Dupin, Daniel Lelong and Jean Frémon.

The Paris gallery has been exhibiting recent works from artists of international standing since 1981. The 1980s were notable for artists who went on to become household names, including Joan Miró, Antoni Tàpies, Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois, Eduardo Chillida, Paul Rebeyrolle, Pierre Alechinsky, but also for the next generation of artists: Konrad Klapheck, Jan Dibbets, Donald Judd, Robert Ryman, Richard Serra, Jannis Kounellis, Arnulf Rainer, Nicola De Maria and Jan Voss.

In the 1990s, the gallery hosted artists who represented major movements in contemporary art: Sean Scully, Günther Förg, Andy Goldsworthy, Ernest Pignon-Ernest, Antonio Saura. The gallery also increased international recognition of the work of Ana Mendieta.

Since the turn of the century, Galerie Lelong has accentuated the geographical and expressive diversity of its artists: from sculpture and objects by Jaume Plensa, David Nash, Wolfgang Laib, Kiki Smith, Rebecca Horn, Barry Flanagan to installations by Barthélémy Toguo and Lin Tianmiao, without forgetting painting, namely David Hockney, Robert Motherwell, Kate Shepherd, Nalini Malani, Nancy Spero, Juan Uslé, Leon Kossoff.

Galerie Lelong has a large publishing department which produces and distributes engravings, lithographs, digital prints and multiple objects, and collates these works in catalogues raisonnés.

It produces monumental sculptures to order for public spaces and private clients.

The gallery is present at the leading international contemporary art fairs (Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Basel Hong Kong, Fiac Paris, Frieze London, Frieze New York, Arco Madrid, Art Brussels, Expo Chicago...).

The directors of the gallery are Jean Frémon, Daniel Lelong and Patrice Cotensin in Paris and Mary Sabbatino in New York.
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13 rue de Téhéran
Paris
France
Opening Hours
Tues - Fri, 10.30am - 6pm
Sat, 2pm - 6.30pm
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Paris 13 rue de Téhéran
Galerie Lelong contemporary art gallery in 13 Rue de Teheran Paris France
Galerie Lelong
13 rue de Téhéran, Paris, France
+33 145 631 319
http://www.galerie-lelong.com

Opening hours
Tues - Fri, 10.30am - 6pm
Sat, 2pm - 6.30pm
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