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Lluís Lleó

"a compelling desire to release fresco painting from the confines of architecture and bring it to life as a three-dimensional, experiential object." <a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7084/7163644787_42c313793a_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7084/7163644787_42c313793a_b.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 700px; height: 872px;" /></a><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7235/7163645041_293c88bd37_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7235/7163645041_293c88bd37_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 561px;" /></a> <a href="http://r20thcentury.com/"> R 20th Century</a> will be premiering the work of Lluís Lleó in Design Miami Basel 2012. "Lluís Lleó (b. 1961), is a self-taught, fourth generation painter who grew up immersed in the classical history of painting from ancient times through the 20th century. His father, Joan Lleó, influenced Lluís’s particular interest in fresco painting by giving Lluís early exposure to his studio work and to the spectacular medieval frescoes in museums as well as in the rural churches and chapels throughout the Spanish countryside. By definition, a fresco painting is intrinsically part of a building—the water-based paint is chemically bonded into the wet plaster. Much of Lluís Lleó’s work references this tradition, while at the same time exhibiting a compelling desire to release fresco painting from the confines of architecture and bring it to life as a three-dimensional, experiential object. Many of his pieces combine painting, design, architecture and sculpture in one exquisitely minimal and elegant form. As curator Pilar Parcerisas wrote, Lleó “does not apply painting to architecture, but he transforms painting into architecture.” In his work, Lleó unites a very classical approach to painting—as well as his almost innate talent for the art form—with his uniquely contemporary ideas about how art can be experienced. Lleó’s masterful, almost playful, manipulation of form, volume and light offers the viewer a sense of discovery and wonder. Born in Barcelona, Lleó lives and works in New York, NY. His work is included in museums and collections worldwide." <a href="http://basel2012.designmiami.com/">Design Miami/ Basel </a>is the global forum for design. Each fair brings together the most influential collectors, gallerists, designers, curators and critics from around the world in celebration of design culture and commerce. Occurring alongside the Art Basel fairs in Miami, USA each December and Basel, Switzerland each June, Design Miami/ has become the premier venue for collecting, exhibiting, discussing and creating collectible design. Design Miami/ is more than a marketplace for collectible design, where the world’s top galleries gather to present museum-quality exhibitions of 20th and 21st century furniture, lighting and objets d’art. all photos by Sherry Griffin/R 20th Century. ----------------------

Lluís Lleó

"a compelling desire to release fresco painting from the confines of architecture and bring it to life as a three-dimensional, experie...

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Spatial Environment

"Mine eyes have seen the glory of the sacred wunderkind You took me behind a dis-used railway line And said "I know a place where we can go Where we are not known" <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQWvMUzTgIk">(T.T.T.T.)</a> <a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7105/7333642770_d55ddfa25c_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7105/7333642770_d55ddfa25c_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 652px; height: 490px;" /></a> <a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8159/7333589466_60a83d7d69_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8159/7333589466_60a83d7d69_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 651px; height: 897px;" /></a> Ambienti Spaziali: "a complex labyrinth of glaring luminosity in which the viewer loses all sense of direction and time and ends against a wall cut by a single slash." 1. Lucio Fontana Ambienti Spaziali May 3 - June 30, 2012 @ <a href="http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/lucio-fontana--may-03-2012">Gagosian, NY</a> "Fontana's fascination for the advancements of science and technology during the twentieth century led him to approach art as a series of investigations into a wide variety of mediums and methods. As a sculptor, he experimented with stone, metals, ceramics, and neon; as a painter he attempted to transcend the confines of the two-dimensional plane. In a series of manifestos, beginning with the Manifesto blanco (White Manifesto) of 1946, Fontana announced his goals for a "spatialist" art, one that could engage technology to achieve an expression of the fourth dimension in a radical new aesthetic idiom that melded the categories of architecture, sculpture, and painting. A sculptor trained in classical techniques, Fontana was initially known for grand and innovative sculptures produced for trade fairs and exhibitions promoting the ideology of Fascism in Italy. But these early examples already contained a rationalist abstract language that pointed to an awareness of the most daring rationalist architectonic experiments of Edoardo Persico and Giuseppe Terragni." 2. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Biedermeier-Bauhaus-Sigrid-Sangl/dp/0810957086">Biedermeier to Bauhaus</a>, by Singrid Sangl "From the Renaissance to the early 20th century, curator Sigrid Sangl traces the complex but characteristic interior design styles found throughout Germany, literally opening the doors to a variety of exceptional interiors. Most of the featured residences—townhouses, royal palaces, artists’ studios, and rural retreats—have never before been photographed. Barbara and René Stoeltie’s sumptuous full-color images, many specially commissioned for this book, convey both the grand scale and the distinguishing details of each style: 16th-century wood-paneled parlors with furniture in matching inlaid patterns; elaborate Baroque wall paintings inspired by exotic plant forms; sturdy, stalwart Biedermeier tables and chairs; the sinuous, ornamental curves of Jugendstil; and the simple, streamlined functionalism of the Bauhaus. " ----------------------

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"Mine eyes have seen the glory of the sacred wunderkind You took me behind a dis-used railway line And said " I know a place where...

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Barragan vs. Mangold : "The Quiet Revolution"

"try me, senseless today. before daylight they came. falling, not to get up. before, nothing could change. <a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8157/7315244118_d83c70305f_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8157/7315244118_d83c70305f_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 690px; height: 969px;" /></a> <a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7081/7315171624_b85b16343e_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7081/7315171624_b85b16343e_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 499px;" /></a> "try me, so tender. the last time it's so nice to get there. try me, so tender. bet you don't foget to wonder too. a balance has taken so long." 1. Luis Barragan House, Tacubaya, Mexico City 1947 ... "Through a combination of International Style and traditional Mexican architecture and materials, Barragan created a modernism not of industrialized Europe, but of pre-industrial Mexico, not of sleek steel and glass but of warm, natural materials; not of the modernist "machine for living" but of spaces that respect human needs. - "Barragan" Armando Salas Portugal photographs, Rizzoli 2. Julia Mangold Untitled, 1994 Waxed steel 100 x 205 x 15 cm Private collection, USA. <a href="http://www.barthacontemporary.com/jmangold/works/steel_wall_sculptures.html">Bartha Contemporary.</a> ... "Striped to a bare minimum Mangold’s sculptures and works on paper reflect on a visual language associated with early American Minimalism as well as European concrete art, however rather than merely relying on a limited notion of romanticised modernism or an hard edge aesthetic the artist’s works evolve through a refined play on human scale and the deliberate confrontation of precise forms and sensual surfaces. It is the artist’s inherent ability to unite these two seemingly opposing traits, which in turn lend the works an extraordinary sense of presence." <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLTtNXkVy3s" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">all lyrics by sea and cake, "everyday"</a> ----------------- --------------------

Barragan vs. Mangold : "The Quiet Revolution"

"try me, senseless today. before daylight they came. falling, not to get up. before, nothing could change. "try me, so tender. ...

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