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Paravent: White & Black, 2016

Painted MDF,

Dowels 180 x 146 cm 

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Paravent: White & Black, 2016

Painted MDF,

Dowels 180 x 146 cm 

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Paravent: White & Black, 2016

Painted MDF,

Dowels 180 x 146 cm 

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Paravent: White & Black, 2016

Painted MDF,

Dowels 180 x 146 cm 

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Paravent: White & Black, 2016

Painted MDF,

Dowels 180 x 146 cm 

Born in 1957, Leonilson studied art in São Paulo (BR) from 1978 to 1981. Apart from Eva Hesse and Blinky Palermo, both of whom he met during travels in Europe, his first major influence was the Italian transavanguardia movement. Formed in the late 1970s, transavanguardia turned to figuration, ancient mythology, and expressive coloration. Similarly, Leonilson’s paintings and drawings from this period show an eclectic subjectivism and an emblematic visual language. An exhibition of textiles produced by the Shakers, a Christian American sect, marked a key moment in the artist’s early career. The Shaker’s embroidered maps of their estates influenced him greatly and inspired him to embrace fabric as a medium. When Leonilson was diagnosed with AIDS in 1991, his visual language changed significantly: between 1991 and 1993, his work, which resembled a diary, betrayed his deteriorating health and a preoccupation with death. Towards the end of his life, he was only able to work with needle, thread, and cloth. In this period, language and abstraction, as well as religious visual and formal language played an important role in Leonilson’s work.


The retrospective at KW presents a selection of over 250 works that encompass a broad range of mediums and styles, from early paintings to the introspective embroidery of Leonilson’s last years, providing an overview of his entire oeuvre. Afterwards, the exhibition will be shown at Malmö Konsthall (June – October 2021), in collaboration with Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and at Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto (March 2022 – September 2022). A catalogue accompanies the exhibition.


Curator: Krist Gruijthuijsen Assistant

Curator: Léon Kruijswijk 

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Born in 1957, Leonilson studied art in São Paulo (BR) from 1978 to 1981. Apart from Eva Hesse and Blinky Palermo, both of whom he met during travels in Europe, his first major influence was the Italian transavanguardia movement. Formed in the late 1970s, transavanguardia turned to figuration, ancient mythology, and expressive coloration. Similarly, Leonilson’s paintings and drawings from this period show an eclectic subjectivism and an emblematic visual language. An exhibition of textiles produced by the Shakers, a Christian American sect, marked a key moment in the artist’s early career. The Shaker’s embroidered maps of their estates influenced him greatly and inspired him to embrace fabric as a medium. When Leonilson was diagnosed with AIDS in 1991, his visual language changed significantly: between 1991 and 1993, his work, which resembled a diary, betrayed his deteriorating health and a preoccupation with death. Towards the end of his life, he was only able to work with needle, thread, and cloth. In this period, language and abstraction, as well as religious visual and formal language played an important role in Leonilson’s work.


The retrospective at KW presents a selection of over 250 works that encompass a broad range of mediums and styles, from early paintings to the introspective embroidery of Leonilson’s last years, providing an overview of his entire oeuvre. Afterwards, the exhibition will be shown at Malmö Konsthall (June – October 2021), in collaboration with Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and at Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto (March 2022 – September 2022). A catalogue accompanies the exhibition.


Curator: Krist Gruijthuijsen Assistant

Curator: Léon Kruijswijk 

Born in Rainy River, Ontario, Canada, in 1966. Lives and works in London and Berlin.


EDUCATION


1985-88 Goldsmiths College, University of London, B.A. (Hons.) Fine Art.


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2019 '.. then nothing turned itself inside-out and became something.', Simon Lee Gallery, Nova Iorque, Nova Iorque Anima Vectorias, Museum Art Architecture Technology (MAAT), Lisboa, Portugal


2017 Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisboa, Portugal Heavy Metal Body, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany


2016 Space Fiction Object, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Suiça Almanach 16, Le Consortium, Dijon, França


2015 Archetypes and Totem Antidotes, Galerie Micheline Szwacjer, Brussels, Belgium Topology: No Holes, Four Tails, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY New Wave Digits, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK 2014 Kerstin Engholm Gallery, Vienna In Virtual Vitro, Esther Schipper, Berlin Pentagon Principle, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid


2013 Universal Mineral, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong 2012 Short Big Yellow Drawing Machine, Galerie Esther Schipper, Berlin Short Big Drama, curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen, Witte de With Center for Contemporary 2011) Fiat Lux. Creación e Iluminación - MACUF Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Union Fenosa, A Coruña 1. Biennale für Internationale Lichtkunst Ruhr 2010 - Biennale für Internationale Lichtkunst, Unna Party! - The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, West Midlands (England) A Roll of the Dice - Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon


2009 We are sun kissed and snow blind - Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris Verausgabungssymposium - COCO (Contemporary Concerns), Vienna Moby Dick - CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA L'attraction de l'espace - Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne The social critique 1993-2005 - Kalmar konstmuseum, Kalmar Wall Drawings - 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA Summer exhibition: Matti Braun, Angela Bulloch, Christoph Keller - Esther Schipper, Berlin Universal Code - The Power Plant, Toronto, ON Estuaire 2009 - Estuaire - Nantes <>Saint Nazaire, Nantes Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today - Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (England) Antes de ayer y pasado mañana; o lo que puede ser pintura hoy - MACUF Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Union Fenosa, A Coruña Sound of Music - Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent Proiezioni - Castello di Rivara - Centro d´arte contemporane, Rivara (TO) Yellow and Green - Positionen aus der Sammlung des MMK - Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main The Porn Identity - Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna Mind the Step - 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA nach weimar, Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar, Weimar (cat.) Variations, op. 96, Hotel Saint Simon, Angoulême, France Escape Attempts, curated by GLOBE and Jack Jaeger; Christiania, Copenhagen, Are you talking to me? curated by Peter Holst Henckel, Gallery Specta, Copenhagen Orte des Möglichen. Weibliche Positionen in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Hypobank International S.A., Luxembourg; Achenbach Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf (cat.) Files - Art as Position in the Age of Global Technologies, Bunker, Berlin Itinerant Texts, commissioned by Bookworks, Camden Arts Centre, London Other Men’s Flowers, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne Supastore de Luxe, UP & Co, New York Life/Live, Musée d‘Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (cat.); Centro de Exposiçoes do Centro Cultural de Belém, Portugal Full House. Junge Britische Kunst, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg All in One, Schipper & Krome, Cologne 1995 Corpus Delicti. London i 90’erne, curated by Torben Christensen Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen (cat.) Das Ende der Avantgarde, Kunst als Dienstleistung, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich (cat.) Toys, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud & Eric Troncy, Galerie Jousse Seguin, Paris Wohnzimmer, Schipper & Krome, Cologne Klangskulpturen, Augenmusik, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz (cat.) Collection, fin XXe, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angouleme (cat.) le labyrinthe moral, curated by Liam Gillick and Philippe Parreno, Le Consortium, Dijon Am Rande der Malerei (second part), Kunsthalle Bern, Bern (cat.) Space Odessey, curated by Helena Papadopoulos Eleni Cohen, Musée des Beaux-Arts Andre Malraux, Le Havre, 1992. Il Mistero dei 100 Dollari Scomparsi, (instructions received by Liam Gillick), Gio‘ Marconi, Milan, 1992. Molteplici Cultura, ed. Carolyn Christov-Barkargiev, Edizione Carte Segrete, Rome, 1992 240 Minuten, Video compilation by Lothar Hempel and Georg Graw, Esther Schipper, Köln,1992. Exh.cat. No Man‘s Time, CNAC, Villa Arson, Nice, 1991. Exh.cat. Broken English, essay by Andrew Graham-Dixon, Serpentine Gallery, London,1991. Plastic Fantastic Lover, essay by Catherine Liu, Blum Helman, New York, 1991. Wechselstrom. Sammlung Hauser und Wirth in der Lokremise, part 2, ed. Michaela Unterdörfer, Cologne, 1991. Exh.cat. art>music. An exhibition looking at crossovers between visual art and music, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 1991 Exh.cat. Bulloch, Hume, Landy, essay by Andrew Renton, Esther Schipper, Cologne, 1990. Nachschub, ed. SPEX magazine, Köln Show, Cologne, 1990. Home Truths, essay by Kate Bush, Castello di Rivara, Torino, 1989.


ARTICLES AND REVIEWS


Gockel, Cornelia. ‘Wenn Pixel explodieren,’ Sueddeutsche Zeitung (February 15, 2008): p. 14. Weskott, Hanne. ‘Alles einer Frage der Perspektive,’ SZ Extra. Sueddeutsche Zeitung (February 14, 2008): p. 4. Dattenberger, Simone. ‘Klänge einer Sternennacht,’ Münchner Merkur (February 15, 2008). Popescu, Adina. Preview: The space that time forgot, Lenbachhaus, Kunstbau, München, Artforum International. January 2008, XLVI, No.5, p. 163. The Producers.’ Roundtable, Artforum International XLVI, No.2, October 2007, pp. 352- 359 402 

Image

Paravent: White & Black, 2016

Painted MDF,

Dowels 180 x 146 cm 

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