MARCO in Vigo dedicates an exhibition to Lluís Lleó

Until September 24, MARCO in Vigo is dedicating an exhibition to Lluís Lleó (Barcelona, 1961). Curated by Miguel Fernández-Cid and Rosa Gutierrez Herranz, Pittore is the first exhibition in a Spanish museum after returning from New York, where he has resided for several decades and where the work of recent years is shown - paintings and drawings on different supports , large papers floating in the courtyards, sculptures and circular structures that dialogue with the rooms on the ground floor and the panopticon – along with a selection of previous works considered referential.

Lluís Lleó inherited from his grandfather and his father the fascination for the Romanesque paintings of the Vall de Boí. This interest in traditional techniques is reflected in his work, in which he applies the fresco technique through the use of pure pigment. His most recent works are characterized by a conjunction between sculpture and painting halfway between figuration and abstraction. Léó knows how to perfectly combine painting and relief, giving the whole an almost architectural nuance. This kind of spatial pictorial organicism in which the material springs from the canvas is a transmitter of dichotomies such as lyricism-forcefulness, presence-transparency and order-chaos.

Lleó's work has often reflected on the work and the theoretical and spatial concepts of architecture (case of his series on Álvaro Siza), based on issues such as scale, forms, materials, geometry and the emotion And it unites, in a natural way, contemporary commitment with the study and knowledge of classical techniques.