LEONILSON: DRAWN 1975-1993
CURATED BY KRIST GRUIJTHUIJSEN
KW INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART - BERLIN
NEW DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON
KW Institute for Contemporary Art is pleased to present the first major retrospective of Brazilian artist Leonilson (1957–1993) in Europe. Leonilson was one of the major exponents of a generation of Brazilian artists known as Geração 80 (80s Generation). After the end of Brazil’s military dictatorship in the mid-1980s, this group of artists celebrated their newly acquired freedom with a gestural, colorful, and expressive style of painting. While American Pop Art appropriated the symbols of a highly industrialized society in the 1980s, the Geração 80s art was firmly critical of society.
