Francis Leiro. Sculpture interesting art Exhibition at the Marlborough Gallery C / Orfila, 5 Madrid
Francisco Leiro Galicia is an artist born in Pontevedra in 1957 and trained as an artist in the School of Arts and Crafts in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, and the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid. Began exhibiting in 1975, and 83 and was invited to participate in various exhibitions. Began working with the Marlborough Gallery a year later, settling in New York in 1988 and since then his work is exposed mainly in the headquarters of the gallery in New York and Madrid.
usually used in wood and iron works, sometimes granite. His works in wood are characteristic for maintaining a strong character, strong and powerful, while expressing an air mundane, as there is human side of their faces strong made of wood, with the gestures and movements are very marked and cut features. All wooden parts are treated with strength and determination in each section, showing the process without trying to elaborate or enhance, without being soft or be smooth, but be precise strokes that show perfectly the shape and the footprint to carve . Some of his carvings in wood, painted, but most left with the color of the material itself.
For example, the work 'Dancer' while being so big and I guess it somewhat difficult to carve, kept at his court all the movement that is expressed by dancing, gesture support of the face and arms. As in the play 'Moving' posture is very straight, but because it's so important about the work, or 'Meat Market', which does not need great expressiveness to highlight by itself, not only because of its high altitude but also by the image given, with greater emphasis on the pig than in man himself, and that this is not the full importance of the work, but rather its action with the animal.
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