Juan Carlos Batista (Tenerife, 1960) moves between the surreal and the conceptual. Some edges that are present in his work are appropriationism, irony and black humor. His work orbits around disappointment and the erratic drift of men, recurring themes that are no guarantee of anything. He is a virtuous intellectual who skillfully handles the catalog of images and concepts that contemporaneity offers, appropriating them and intervening to subvert their initial contents, and imbricate them in a subtle and ironic plot. Thus he manifests the critical disenchantment that the artist maintains with the reality that surrounds us. Of his latest individual exhibitions we highlight, “No verlas venir” (2023) at the Artizar Gallery in La Laguna. In 2022 “Temores infundados” at the Kaplan Projects Gallery in Palma de Mallorca. In the midst of the Pandemic and with the title “Deserciones épicas” (online edition) he participated in PhotoEspaña OFF 2020, presented by N2 Galería in Barcelona. “Carne triste” at the Casal Solleric in 2018. The exhibition “La trinchera errante” at the Sala El Aljibe of the CIC El Almacén in Lanzarote and “Tiempo es de que sea tiempo” at the N2 Galería in Barcelona were carried out in 2017. The individual project “Realidad casi humo” was exhibited at the Centro de Arte La Regenta in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and at the Juan Ismael in Fuerteventura in 2017, as well as at TEA (Tenerife espacio de las Artes) a year earlier. In 2013 he exhibited at the Artizar Gallery in La Laguna “El cronista bipolar”. The project “El paisaje amnésico” is included in PhotoEspaña 2012 presented by the Nieves Fernández Gallery. He has participated in national and international art fairs such as PULSE Miami (United States) or ARCO Madrid (Spain), PINTA London, among others.
