This minimalist artwork features the word "DOCENT" in bold, stark lettering against a plain white background. The clean, monochromatic composition highlights the simplicity and directness of the text, which stands out prominently. The choice of a sans-serif font and the lack of any additional visual elements or ornamentation create a striking, no-frills aesthetic that invites the viewer to focus solely on the word itself. This piece likely reflects the artist's intention to convey a sense of authority, expertise, or institutional identity, possibly alluding to the role of a museum docent or guide. ...
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. ...
