I investigate when something becomes art and which infrastructures facilitate, recognise, or capture it.

I work across three articulated fields: transdisciplinary artistic creation, cultural mediation, and research into the ontology of art. In 2021, I co-developed a professional digital art appraisal protocol for Afundación-Abanca. I have published the theoretical framework Art as Structural Surplus and, with Adolfo Cortés García, Recognition and Surplus, both with DOIs on Zenodo. I chair the Kripties Foundation, which is dedicated to social inclusion through art.

  • Sangre - Juan A. Esteban - Transdisciplinary contemporary art - Málaga.
  • Never Again - Juan A. Esteban - Transdisciplinary contemporary art - Málaga. Artistic composition entitled "Never Again": a vertical fissure glowing in shades of red and white upon a dark, textured surface, resembling a wound or scar.
  • A vertical painting dominated by a large, near-circular black mass, dense and textured, which occupies a significant portion of the canvas and evokes the lunar disc during a total eclipse. Along the right edge, a curved strip of golden and whitish light emerges, fragmented and rugged, descending until it dissipates into small glimmers. The background, dark yet not entirely black, displays bluish and greyish glazes towards the right. The paint application creates furrows, fissures, and organic strokes that envelop the central form like bark.
  • What we choose to preserve conditions what is to come - Juan A. Esteban - Transdisciplinary contemporary art - Málaga. Artistic composition entitled "What we choose to preserve conditions what is to come": a small green shoot germinating within a nest of branches, set against a dark, textured background.
  • Gernika - Juan A. Esteban - Transdisciplinary contemporary art - Málaga. Abstract painting entitled "Gernika": an explosion of white, red, and black brushstrokes radiating from a central red point, evoking violence and destruction.

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