MANUEL LEÓN
2020-07-13León’s starting point is whatever others take for granted. A painter, who knows that he lives “out of time”, needs his hand to speak, like the figure in Ventriloquist of Herself (La Ventrílocua de sí misma), where a well-known children’s puppet may be delivering a speech, a story about something still to be revealed. Count von Count, the godfather of basic mathematics for a generation, keeps doing his sums, but looking at the composition for a while in silence, we realize that she is the one pulling the strings, with her mouth closed, in silence, possibly telling us a tale.
Opposite – Hipóstasis vegetal, 2020
Exhibition runs through to July 31st, 2020
Galería Javier López & Fer Francés
Guecho, 12 B
28023 Madrid
Spain
