We acquired this special piece right before the Pandemic at Art Madrid. Ruben Martin de Lucas became one of the five founders of Boa Mistura, a multidisciplinary art collective rooted in urban art. Throughout his pieces, Ruben has developed a body of work focused on «landscape and associated behaviour». Through his projects, he addresses topics such as the gradual reduction of space for wildlife, overpopulation, the artificial nature of borders, the fluid nature of the nation-state concept, and the dichotomy between industrial and natural agriculture.
His projects form a committed and critical discourse that invites us to reconsider our relationship with the territory.
El Jardín de Fukuoka pays tribute to the Japanese philosopher and farmer Masanobu Fukuoka. Fukuoka developed a strategy based on Wu Wei, the principle of non-action or minimal interference through observation. He achieved this by not ploughing, using chemicals or fertilizers, removing weeds or pruning, and developing what is known today as natural agriculture. Deeply inspired, Martin de Lucas decided to represent through a gestural and free painting, a metaphor for the diversity of any ecosystem and the «minimal interference» strategy that Masanobu Fukuoka brought to agriculture and life.