REFLEXIONES EN COLOR

He started exhibiting his works in a collective exhibition in 1969, organized by the council of Mieres, in which he got a secondary award, and in three competitions in the cultural centre of Mieres in the years 1984, 1986 and 1988. He also had an exhibition in the X Certamen de Pintura "Nicanor Piñol" of Sotrondio in 1933, in the I Bienal Internacional de la Buena Pintura de la Mar in 200 (Salinas), and in the V Bienal de Pintura "Villa de Noreña" that took place in the same year. In 2007 he obtained the third price in the contest "Un rincón de Oviedo" organized by the Asturian Centre of said city. 

REFLEXIONES EN COLOR 

In order to talk about the work of Juan Martínez, you have to know the author. And the author squanders feelings in abundance. He has chosen to be a painter, but he could have also chosen to be a poet, sculptor, musician... in fact he has intervened in the art of music through his life, offering his voice as an instrument.

All these collected arts are the works of Juan Martínez. As well as transmitting serenity, calm... an amalgam of feelings that can only be compared to the pleasure of reading a good book or contemplating a sunset.

Now I see the sea, with different luminosities. Now I see a river, meamdering through stones and trees that the hard and cold winter has dried. Now I see the magnificent horizon, full of infinite tonalities of all the colours that one can imagine, mixed in the haze that the deep waters of a lake emanate. Now I see a hut, solitary and lost in the middle of a snowy landscape, now I see...

And we are still looking. We will see Juan Martínez reflected in his paintings.  

María Luisa Acevedo