This abstract artwork features a striking combination of vibrant colors and bold, geometric patterns. The composition is dominated by a deep, fiery red that fills the majority of the canvas, punctuated by vertical lines of brilliant yellow and blue. The overall effect is one of dynamic energy and intensity, with a sense of movement and visual tension created by the interplay of these geometric forms. The artist's technique appears to employ a minimalist, color-field approach, relying on the expressive power of color and shape to convey a profound emotional or conceptual statement. While the specific subject matter is ambiguous, the work invites the viewer to engage with its visual poetry and contemplate the universal themes of light, energy, and the human experience. ...
Through his research, Leo Chesneau provokes a calling into question of traditional pictorial means, combining theoretical reflections and a political positioning on circulation and access to images.The equal importance attributed to the manufacturing stages and to the final artwork, as well as the absence of a predetermined subject in his works, shift the interest towards the succession of different gestures that create the paintings. His work reflects a desire to return to the primitive gesture, by appropriating different methods of image-making: covering, superimposition, subtraction, framing. Leo uses simple, elementary structures made with the help of ancestral tools and materials such as fire, ink and pigment to reproduce technological mechanisms rid of their magic on a human scale. Purified forms, made up of elements below which the form itself dissolves: the repetition of similar shapes and volumes, the creation of a motif and its reversal. ...
