This abstract painting features a bold, minimalist composition of vibrant, solid color blocks. The predominant colors are a deep pink, a rich purple, a bright blue, and a vivid yellow, separated by thin black lines. The overall arrangement creates a striking visual contrast, emphasizing the geometric shapes and the interplay of hues. This work exemplifies the artist's mastery of color and form, reflecting the principles of color field painting. The piece likely aims to evoke an emotional response through its harmonious yet dynamic color palette and clean, reductive aesthetic. ...
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. ...
