Leandro Russo

Leandro Russo was born in 1973 in Giarre, Catania. He graduated in Business Banking at the University of Messina, but decides to change his fate by returning to its primordial passion: painting. Begins a journey by himself that brings him to explore different techniques including watercolor that becomes the medium of his elective expressive figuration. He lives and works in Milan.

STATEMENT

I flood my paintings with water. In most cases I work directly on the support rests on a horizontal plane without preparing sketches or studies, and I let myself be guided by instinct and the watercolor techniques allows me to externalize everything at a glance. This requires a physical and gesture readiness: I move the canvas continuously to control the movements of the water that slides and sometimes imposes its dynamics. The ecoline, the inks and watercolors are the main tools to create, to tell the space that we occupy; but also the places that you will lose or have already lost: childhood places, places of origin, or that could have been.
The theme of the landscape is an excuse to explore a lanuage as unusual as possible, and to do so I went along with the water so as to leave open field to creative moments of unconscious level and e...

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014
– Le circostanze non sono favorevoli | Avantgarde Tatto & Art Gallery | Sesto S. Giovanni (MI) | a cura di Arianna Beretta.
2007
– Il volo dell’angelo | cappella Bonajuto | Catania | pieg.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015
- Nutrimento Urbano | Folli 50.0 | Fuorisalone Milano 2015 | Mostrami e Fondazione Bracco (MI)
– Mostrami Factory@Copernico | Art Night Out 2015 | in collaborazione con Affordable Art Fair (Mi)
– Esopo | Mostra collettiva | Avantgarde Tatto & Art Gallery | Sesto S. Giovanni (MI)

2014
– dieciXquindici | Mostra collettiva in piccolo formato | Teatro Comunale San Teodoro | Cantù (Co) | a cura di Elisa Fusi.
– Nel segno dell’arte – mostra di incisioni d’arte | Mulino Dugnani | Cassina De’ Pecchi (MI).
– Nero su Bianco | Piscinacomunale Spadiodarteincopisteria | Milano | cat.
– Dolly | Multiplo contemporaneo | Circoloquadro | Milano | a cura di Marta Cereda e Arianna Beretta.
– Arte in arti e mestieri 2014 | Fondazione Scuola di Arti e Mestieri “F. Bertazzoni” | Suzzara (MN) | a cura di Mauro Carrera e Renzo Dell’Asta | Opera segnalata | cat.

2013
– Postqards | Circoloquadro | Milano | a cura di Marta Cereda
– Statements 2013.2 | Circoloquadro | Milano | a cura di Ivan Quaroni | ca...