Antonio Ballester Moreno's work focuses on a close relationship between biology and culture, as well as sharing a number of characteristics with the historical avant-garde, affiliated with abstraction. There are clear affinities with Fauvism, Surrealism, constructivist abstraction, geometric and biomorphic abstraction and there are often glimpses of Matisse, Miró, Arp or Caro, integrated by a symbolic reading. The colour, with a preference for primary and secondary colours, is open and smooth, and is invested with symbolic, if not cosmic, meanings, as is the form, reduced to elementary geometric figures and simple drawings. As for the materials, they vary between industrial materials, such as steel and iron, and handmade materials, associated with diverse popular cultures that extend beyond Western geography. In addition to this, there is an interest in the realms of spirituality and nature, which brings the artist's work closer to the Escuela de Vallecas project, which emerged in Spain in the wake of Cubism and Surrealism.

The sculpture - Luna y Sol (negative)
from 2022 is, in this respect, quite representative of Ballester Moreno's practice, as well as summarising the main premises explored in the solo exhibition “10h”, held in 2022: the conception of time, the passage from day to night and vice versa, as well as the perception of these phenomena, is always relative, depending on each person. If the jagged shapes of this steel sculpture, turned into symbols, point to a certain universal reading; the coexistence of the moon (a black element in the shape of a quarter moon) and the sun (a square green element) in the same composition is a reminder that the perception of day and night depends on the position of the subject and, to that extent, the cultural and sensory coordinates that frame them.