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Juanma Lorenzo

Material delicacy and the metaphysics of transformation

Painting as inner movement and contemplative space

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A practice rooted in silence, matter, and inner movement, the work of Juanma Lorenzo unfolds as a meditative dialogue with impermanence. Through layered materials, subtle tonalities, and a deep listening to the unexpected, his paintings reveal a space where fragility, strength, and transformation coexist.

In his secluded studio surrounded by nature, Juanma Lorenzo creates works that bridge the visible and the intangible. His process begins on the floor, where large-format pieces become fields for experimentation with pigments, ashes, graphite, recycled materials, and layered surfaces. Every gesture emerges from a dialogue between intuition and discipline a dance where the unexpected is not an interruption, but a vital force.

Lorenzo’s paintings explore the cycles of breaking and rebuilding, evoking the non-linear nature of time as an experience of pause, healing, and inner movement. Influenced by Asian philosophies and the concept of impermanence, his work invites a contemplative gaze: a slow encounter where silence becomes a space of awareness.

His recent series reveal a masterful use of black and white, unfolding infinite nuances through delicate glazes, subtle transitions, and profound depths. The surface becomes a site of spiritual resonance a wall, a limit, and a threshold. Through construction and deconstruction, his pieces transcend representation to become spaces of reflection, balance, and quiet transformation.

Wounded building Courtesy of the artist	transection of architectural ligaments Courtesy of the artist	ArterioArch Courtesy of the artist	Aortic Foyer Courtesy of the artist
In the city's embrace, wreckage distills, bending planes unseen Courtesy of the artist	Stadium №2 Courtesy of the artist

BIO

Juanma Lorenzo (Canary Islands, Spain) is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose practice spans painting, design, interior decoration, visual merchandising, and creative entrepreneurship. His artistic career began at an early age, with solo exhibitions and recognitions in drawing and painting in both Venezuela and Spain. He has exhibited in the United States, Spain, and France, and participated in the International Contemporary Art Fair in Paris.

His work is part of numerous private collections across Spain, Venezuela, Argentina, Thailand, South Africa, South Korea, and the United States, and he is represented exclusively in Oregon, California, and Washington by Liz Contag Art.

Working primarily with intervened paper, plywood, pigments, wood, latex, cement, and mixed media, Lorenzo constructs textured surfaces inspired by walls not only as physical boundaries, but as metaphors for inner thresholds, cycles, and transformation. His practice is rooted in the Buddhist concept of impermanence, where constant change becomes both structure and meaning.

PUBLICATIONS

His work and trajectory have been featured in exhibition catalogs, international fair programs, and private collection archives across Europe and the Americas. Additional publications and press features will be listed as they become available.

THE LANGUAGE OF SILENCE AND MATTER

Juanma Lorenzo’s work inhabits the delicate space where material becomes memory and silence becomes form. Through layered surfaces, raw textures, and restrained gestures, his paintings reveal the unseen: the pauses, fractures, and quiet reconciliations that shape human experience. Each piece becomes a meditation on impermanence, inviting viewers into a slowed, contemplative encounter with time, matter, and the self.

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