Juan Uslé has gathered his recent pictorial work under the title “Bisiesto” (“Bissextile”), insisting on the continuity of his artistic direction, which is all the more difficult to maintain in a fragmented and discontinuous world like our own. All the questions concerning the validity of painting and its practice continue to hound him. The survival of painting helps him prove to himself that, through painting itself, he has broadened his cognitive universe. For him, the defense of painting assumes an incessant reflection on the pictorial act because its strength depends on this gesture. Uslé