Swept away by wind and rough waters, the merchant ship Elorrio crashed into the cliffs of Langre a few days before Christmas in the year 1960, cutting short the lives of all but one of the members of the crew. The sirens, the alarms of people in the area, and the roar of the tempest jumbled up in the dark of night and in the memory of Juan Uslé, a boy who lived in the vicinity: a vivid remembrance that shaped his early artistic explorations and is now the starting point of ‘That Ship on the Mountain,’ a retrospective exhibition currently on view at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, twenty-two years after his first solo show at Velázquez Palace in Retiro Park. Curated by Ángel Calvo Ulloa and running until 20 April, it is a chronological but circular voyage – with comings and goings between different series (the painter calls them families) – over the course of four decades of producing canvases, drawings, and photographs that weave subconscious connections with the world around us, in an oeuvre that with the passage of time has tended towards large formats, pulsating rhythms, and characteristic horizontal bands sustaining an introspective and lyrical abstraction.