Lluís Lleó "Recent Paintings and Works on Paper"
The Elkon Gallery
This event has ended.
To call Lleó a classical painter may summon up misleading images of marbles or Poussin. These don’t apply, of course. But for Lleó, deliberation, lucidity, slow development and calm are among the paramount virtues of the art of painting, and he sees no reason to pretend otherwise. In that general sense he truly is a classical painter.
Some painters attract Lleó because their work “is so quiet that it’s almost anonymous.” Ellsworth Kelly, for instance. But the artists he feels closest to are sculptors. Notably, the American Christopher Wilmarth, whose suicide – at a moment when his reputation had only just begun to develop – was a terrible deprivation. “I love the way that you can be close to one of his most powerful pieces and yet hardly known it’s there, until you look really closely.” Martin Puryear he admires for the beauty of his relation to natural materials: wood, especially. “And Noguchi, too, of course. And certain architects.”
-excerpt from "Lluís Lleó" By Robert Hughes, Barcelona (2002)
[Image: Lluís Lleó "Cobaltvioletfast" Oil, ink and pencil on canvas 80 x 60 in.]
Media
Schedule
from October 26, 2011 to December 04, 2011