Brain generating television (2004) Painting by Leonblas

LEONBLAS

The main characteristic of Leonblas’s work is the emphasis placed on the cromatic factors that enhance the figures, objects or situations that are being represented. The end result is a world that is totally different from the reality of everyday life of common and ordinary men. Here, we can see an artist who tries to go more in depth and uncover a visibility that doesn’t have to do anything with external emotion, but with intuition, sensibility and the exhaltation of research as well as that of rebellion. The artist escapes from all sorts of rhetorics in order to face events. There are no objects or characters, but situations in a constant association with ideas, gestures and colours. The fluidity of signs or gestures is contained in an allusive space which is sometimes simply mental and could represent a hypothetic and equally true reality.

The brush strokes move following a certain rhythm, in search of the intimate, of what’s hidden very deep. Colours are kept dull and are rich of unique ‘chiaroscuro’ expressions of faces, torsoes and architecture. The main force of Leonblas derives from this sort of imagery. He’s an artist who is full of acquired and spontaneous values that reflect the authentic temperament in the vortex of an adventure which knows nothing of pauses and uncertainties. He transmits a mesage that deals with the values of art. In it we can see the great capacity he has to convey them. This message is an outcry which lacerates through all the periods of our history and which art re-proposes in order to identify the ideals of the spirit. This is the art of Leonblas, an effort which originates from an intense emotional force, through high quality paintings accomplished exceptionally.

During an important ceremony to the Prince of Venice, Leonblas received the Premio Biennale di Venezia– Rialto in 2005, with the following comments: “Expressionism of intense psychological sensibility”. (Giorgio Falossi in “Italian painters and sculptors Novecento – 2006”- edited from Quadrato)

“ The coherence (I would like to imply stylistic, but I think that in this case it would be better to use a more appropriate term: ethic) which Leonblas shows in his different forms of creative expression is almost absolute. I cannot ignore the operant conditioning produced by his poetic language, nor the content suggestions present in the chromatism, forms, and above all in the pages where some pictures are reproduced in his sillogy “Le voci dell’Elicona.” That is why I rely on these works equipped with a true “vade-mecum” of those codes provided by the author.

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• Nationality: ITALY
• Date of birth : 1969
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• Groups: Contemporary Italian Artists