LEONCILLO (1915-1968)

‘The cut, materially executed in clay, as if it were incised by a cleaver, is the clear demonstration of Leoncillo’s Cubist intelligence: it represents the decomposition of naturalistic volumes into a series of chromatic and luminous planes, in which the object is simultaneously portrayed – as anything but natural – together with its syntactic elaboration into a form that goes far beyond that of a natural object. [...] For this reason, Leoncillo could not use anything but clay, exalting it from its artisanal status to its most autonomous and rarefied form’ -Cesare Brandi