Brushstrokes, accumulations of colour, glazes and priming are generally the painter's tools when materialising an image perceived by the retina, a memory of the past or a projection of an imagined future; sometimes they give form to an internal movement of the spirit, or to the complexity of an idea. In other cases, such as that of Juan Rodríguez Varón, the thematic content is anecdotal, an excuse to approach materiality and the pictorial exercise. Whether it is a still life, a landscape or an abstraction, Rodríguez Varón's canvases speak, from beginning to end, of painting.
