Fernando Leal Audirac

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Fernando Leal Audirac (born November 16, 1958 in Mexico City , Mexico ) is a visual artist , painter , graphic artist , illustrator , sculptor and designer living in Italy . He belongs to the transavant-garde and combines conventional techniques with modern technology.

Life

Fernando Leal Audirac was born in Mexico City into a family of artists. His father Fernando Leal (1896–1964) was a painter and a co-founder of the Mexican wall painting movement of the 1920s . His mother Francine Audirac (1928–1974) worked as a painter and sculptor. Javier Audirac is his cousin .

Fernando Leal Audirac studied from 1974 to 1978 under the direction of Guillermo Sánchez Lemus techniques of painting from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance . Since then he has followed Giotto di Bondone , Piero della Francesca and Leonardo da Vinci in his work . Together with Manuel Serrano he founded a restoration workshop and worked there in the classic painting techniques such as fresco , encaustic , egg tempera and oil painting . In the 1980s he founded an intellectual salon (the Friday group ) in which personalities from the international cultural scene took part, including Jens Jesen, Pierre Restany , Shifra Goldman, Arnold Belkin , Kurt Hollander, Francis Alÿs , Ernesto de la Peña, Jan William , Juan Acha, Arturo González Cosío, Michael Tracy, José Luis Cuevas , Phil Kelly and Mahia Biblos.

From 1980 to 1985 he studied printmaking techniques and their refined applications with José Sánchez. In collaboration with the Czech artist Mikola Axmann, he optimized his lithographic technique. From 1989 to 1993 he worked as an advisor to the National Commission of Fine Arts of Mexico ( Comisión Consultiva del FONCA ), which he co-founded. In 1993 he was the first artist of his generation to exhibit at the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City.

He has lived in Milan since 1993. 1995 and 2001 he participated in the Biennale of Venice in part. In 1996 he was invited to France as a visiting professor at the École nationale supérieure d'art in Nancy . Between 1997 and 2000 he developed a technique for transportable contemporary frescoes.

Major works

The shadow and the night , 1990

painting

His main works include the paintings Self-Portrait from 1975 and The Shadow and the Night .

Frescoes

In 2004 he designed the fresco " Portrait of Pope John Paul II " in the format 10 meters by 2.4 meters by 0.6 meters. It is the largest papal portrait in the world.

Encaustic

One focus of his work is the reinterpretation of encaustic as a classic painting technique. In November 2010 he showed large-format encaustics in the Art Seefeld gallery in Zurich . These included The Value of a Brushstroke and The Gardens of Erbaluce .

Media

Since 2008 he has been working on the multimedia project The Invisible Cat , which was inspired by an imaginary painting by Francisco de Goya . The project combines painting, sculpture, 3D animation and installations.

design

As a designer, he works in the field of car and yacht design. For example, in 2009 he painted a Spanish sports car Tramontana R with a V12 biturbo engine and 720 hp with a special metallic paint that he enriched with gold and gemstone powder. The paintwork shimmers in different colors depending on the light exposure and alternates between purple and cobalt blue and between green and gold. Given the shape of the Tramontana sports car and the shape of a yacht, he developed a series of mathematical sculptures in 2009 , which he painted with this special metallic paint. These sculptures include The Golden Sea and Touch me .

Egg tempera

In his aesthetic research he tries to find a synthesis between western and eastern tradition. The graphic and painterly work Entrails of God in the format 2 × 10 meters belongs in this context , in which he reconstructs the classic technique of egg tempera and in which he confronts the graphic problem of linearity (east) from a painterly perspective (west).

Exhibitions

Exhibitions

  • 186: Universidad Iberoamericana , Mexico City
  • 1991: Galería de Arte Mexicano , Mexico City
  • 1992: Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City
  • 1992: Galería Hakim Arte Actual, Mexico City
  • 1993: Palacio de Bellas Artes , Mexico City
  • 1994: José Luis Cuevas Museum, Mexico City
  • 1994: Instituto Italo-Latinoamericano, Rome
  • 1994: Casa del Mantegna, Mantova, Italy
  • 1995: Centro Culturale de México, Paris
  • 1996: Galleria Manzoni, Milan
  • 1996: Signum Winfried Heid Gallery, Heidelberg
  • 1997: Gallery M - 13, New York
  • 1998: Muzeul Național de Artă al României , Romania
  • 1999: Galleria Arte 92, Milan
  • 1999: Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea della Rocca di Umbertide, Umbertide
  • 1999: Gallery of the BBK Braunschweig
  • 2000: Howard Scott Gallery, New York
  • 2001: Civica Galleria d'arte moderna, Spoleto
  • 2002: José Luis Cuevas Museum, Mexico City
  • 2003: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology , Berlin.
  • 2004: Howard Scott Gallery, New York
  • 2004: Galleria Arte 92, Milan
  • 2008: Spazio Dante 14, Milan
  • 2009: Galerie Art Seefeld, Zurich
  • 2010: Galerie Art Seefeld, Zurich

Participation in exhibitions

  • 1992: Frankfurter Kunstverein , Frankfurt am Main
  • 1993: Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
  • 1994: Hakim Gallery, Brussels
  • 1994: International Art Exhibition, Seoul
  • 1994: Galerie 1900–2000, Paris
  • 1995: Art Multiple Fair, Düsseldorf
  • 1995: MIart, Milan
  • 1995: Forum Artis Museum, Montese
  • 1995: Biennale , Venice
  • 1996: Fiera d 'Arte Bologna, Galeria Diagonal, Bologna
  • 1996: Galleria Giorgio Upiglio, Milan
  • 1996: M-13 Gallery, New York
  • 1996: Miami Art Fair, Afinsa Almirante Gallery, Miami
  • 1996: Paolo Pini Museum of Art, Milan
  • 1997: ARCO Madrid, Galeria de Arte Mexicano, Madrid
  • 1998: Palazzo Ducale , Genoa
  • 1999: Spazio Montenero, Milan
  • 1999: Palazzo dei Sette, Orvieto
  • 2000: Museo José Luis Cuevas, Mexico City
  • 2000: Galleria Arte 92, Milan
  • 2001: Heidelberg Castle , Heidelberg
  • 2001: Biennale, Venice
  • 2001: Galleria Le bureau des esprits, Turin
  • 2002: Galería Drexel, Monterrey, Mexico
  • 2006: Fagus-Gropius Museum, Alfeld (Leine)
  • 2007: Vittoriale , Gardone Riviera
  • 2007: Castello Estense , Ferrara
  • 2008: Castel S. Angelo , Rome

literature

Work editions

  • Juan Acha: El antirretrato del Dr. Villanueva: ocho oleos de Fernando Leal Audirac = The anti-portrait of Dr. Villanueva. Eight oil paintings by Fernando Leal Audirac. Critical essay by Juan Acha. Galeria de Arte Mexicano, Mexico 1991.
  • Fernando Leal Audirac: Obra de 1975 a 1993. Texts by: Richard Brettell, Juan Acha, Jorge Juanes, Ernesto de la Peña, Alberto Híjar, Arturo González Cosío. Espejo de Obsidiana, México 1993. ISBN 968-6258-32-9
  • Fernando Leal Audirac: La stagione che rimane. Opera 1993-2003. A cura di Martina Corgnati. Texts by Martina Corgnati, Lorella Giudici, Marc Dachy, Gianluca Marziani and Jorge Juanes. Silvana, Cinisello Balsamo (Milano) 2003. (Works on paper 1993–2003.) ISBN 88-8215-642-7 (text in Italian, English and Spanish)
  • Fernando Leal Audirac: La monumentalidad de lo íntimo . Foreword by Gabriel Bernal Granados, UNAM-El Equilibrista, Mexico City 2007.

Exhibition catalogs

  • Juan Acha: El museo del hombre. Fernando Leal Audirac. Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico 1992. (Languages: English and Spanish)
  • Fernando Leal Audirac and Arturo González Cosío: El códice de la guerra invisible. Variaciones sobre la pintura de Fernando Leal Audirac. = The codex of the invisible war. Poems inspired by Fernando Leal Audirac's paintings from Arturo González Cosío. Papeles privados, México 1993. ISBN 968665741X (languages: English and Spanish)
  • Fernando Leal Audirac: Sotto un cielo di piombo. Under a Leaden Sky. Texts by Pierre Restany, Richard Brettell, Juan Acha, Jorge Juanes, Alberto Híjar, Álvaro Medina, Ernesto de la Peña, Giuliano Serafini. Casa del Mantegna, Mantova 1994. (Languages: Italian, Spanish, English)
  • Fernando Leal Audirac, Raimundo Sesma: Fernando Leal Audirac. Sesma. Casa del Mantegna, Mantova 1994. (Languages: Italian, Spanish, English)
  • La Biennale di Venezia. Esposizione internazionale d'arte. [BV] . Part 46 [, 11], text by Pierre Restany. Istituto Italo-Latino Americano. Roma 1995 (Biennale Venezia June 11 - October 15, 1995)
  • Bruno Soleri, Fernando Leal Audirac: Fernando Leal Audirac. Galleria Manzoni, Milano 1996 (Language: Italian)
  • Martina Corgnati: Fernando Leal Audirac. The discourse of things . Signum, Heidelberg 1996 and Torhaus Galerie, Federal Association of Visual Artists EV Braunschweig 1999. (Languages: German and Italian).
  • Juan Acha: Recent Works by Fernando Leal Audirac . Galleria Manzoni, Milan 1996.
  • Enrico Mascelloni: Fernando Leal Audirac. Recent Paintings . M-13 Gallery, New York 1997.
  • Fernando Savater: Fernando Leal Audirac . Mexican Institute, Madrid 1997.
  • Enrico Mascelloni: Fernando Leal Audirac . National Art Museum, Bucharest 1998.
  • Enrico Mascelloni: Leal o la modernità del sublime . Galleria Arte 92, Milan 1999.
  • Enrico Mascelloni: Fernando Leal Audirac . Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea della Rocca di Umbertide, Umbertide 1999.
  • Gerard Haggerty: Fernando Leal Audirac. Paintings 1997-2000. HS-Howard Scott Gallery, New York 2000.
  • Martina Corgnati: Labyrinthos . Civica Galleria d'arte moderna, Spoleto 2001.
  • José Luis Cuevas, Jorge Juanes, Lorella Giudici and Cristina Riestra: The Hall of Mirrors . Museo José Luis Cuevas, Mexico City 2002.
  • Ron Allenberger: Thy Fearful Symmetry , Galerie Art Seefeld, Zurich 2010.

Illustrations of other works

  • Arturo González Cosío: Micromitografías , Del Valle Ed., Mexico 1986.
  • Ernesto de la Peña: Las estratagemas de Dios , Editorial Domés, Mexico 1988.
  • Arturo González Cosío, Ernesto de la Peña: Animales del mundo en proverbios. Selección y trad. Arturo González Cosío. Pról. Ernesto de la Peña. Del Valle Ed., Mexico 1992. ISBN 968-665736-3 .
  • Guillermo Samperio: Anteojos para la abstracción. Cal y arena, Mexico 1994.
  • Fernando Savater : Criaturas del aire. ABC, Madrid 1994.
  • Vicente Quirarte: Tras la huella del niño centenario. Instituto Mexiquense de Cultura, Toluca (México) 1994. ISBN 968-484-181-7
  • Enrique Fernández Ledesma: Nueva galería de fantasmas . Ida y regreso al siglo XIX. Univ. Nac. Autónoma de México, Coord.de Humanidades, Dir.Gen.de Publ., México, DF 1st edition 1995. ISBN 968-363773-6 .
  • Auro Bernardi: Buñuel . Le Mani, Milano 1999.
  • Arturo González Cosío: Trece poemas y cuatro haikus de amor . Univ. Nac. Autónoma de México, Mexico 2004.
  • Sergio Fernández: El Mediterráneo de Cervantes. Su juventud. Italia y Argel . Univ. Nac. Autónoma de México, Mexico, 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source for the curriculum vitae: Fernando Leal Audirac: La stagione che rimane. Opere 1993-2003, pages 625-626. In addition, further information from November 2010 from Fernando Leal Audirac.
  2. ↑ The painting The Shadow and the Night was exhibited at the Venice Biennale .
  3. ↑ October 2009 - elabia.de . In: elabia.de .
  4. ↑ A picture from the exhibition can be found here ( Memento from November 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). It shows an infection.
personal data
SURNAME Leal Audirac, Fernando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, sculptor and designer
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico City , Mexico