León Sánchez David

Hi my name is David León, also known as .leon, I am a multidisciplinary artist with a primary focus on figurative sculpture and also have experience in painting. My story began on a stormy night in the summer of 1979 in Barcelona when a 21-year-old woman gave birth to her first child, a small, big-headed, and hairy boy.

I studied in different traditional private schools, where "donkey, the letter only enters with blood" was the motto. Throughout those years, I was humiliated and mistreated, which led me to hide my connection with the plastic arts out of shame and embarrassment. At the age of 14, my mother, after spending a fortune on "RUBIO" handwriting notebooks, decided to take me to a psychologist. Yes, I had dyslexia, so I couldn't write or draw, let alone read. With that diagnosis, a new chapter of my life began: a teacher taught me how to write again. I continued my high school studies and graduated as a Technician in Metal Construction. During those years, the explosion of rap and graffiti took place, which captivated me. In 1994, Montana Colors arrived in paint stores, and armed with the most colorful sprays of the time, I started painting walls like crazy. Although my artwork was not very good, I continued to do it impuls...

The street university

January - April 2024 - Drap Art Project Sustainable Art for a Happier World, to the Miguel de Cervantes Library in Shanghai. China.
November 2023 - Westbund fair Shanghai with the help of the Drap-Art festival and the Cervantes Institute. China.
July - August 2023: Spray Planet - DrapArt Gallery - Barcelona City.
July 2022: Exabrupte Festival – Moia (Barcelona).
June 2022: Fireflies - Sala Rovira - Sant Hilari Sacalm (Girona).
2021 from July to September - Andorra International Land Art Biennial - Andorra.
2021 from March to June - Josep M. Codina i Bagué Museum - Collective exhibition Calella (Girona).
2021 from February to April - Eda Gallery - Olot (Girona).
December 2020 January 2021 - Drapart Festival - (Barcelona).
Ninots, in the Rovira room, from 16/09/2020 to 30/09/2020 St. Hilari Sacalm,
(Girona).
November 15, 2019 - January 19, 2020 - Drapart festival - Maritime Museum of
Barcelona (Barcelona).
July - August, 2019 Untitled work, No 1 - Can Rovira Exhibition Hall-
Sant Hilari Sacalm (Girona)
Art en Ruta 2017/2018
St.Hilari Scalm 2017 Party Program Back Cover
December 2018 January 2019 - DrapArt 2019- Maritime Museum of Barcelona.
December 2018 January 2019 - Uni Crux,
Inundart Festival Expos 66, Mansion de la Catalanite...