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José Leonilson — Rios do Mundo
José Leonilson

Rios do Mundo

A delicate map-like composition unfolds across the organic surface of cowhide, where Leonilson traces the world's rivers in fluid, gestural lines that seem to pulse with quiet vulnerability. The natural texture and irregular edges of the animal hide become integral to the work's meaning, blurring boundaries between the geographic and the corporeal, the global and the deeply personal. True to Leonilson's poetic sensibility, the piece transforms cartographic data into an intimate meditation on connection, longing, and the invisible threads that bind distant places and bodies together.

Medium
acrylic on cowhide

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Latin America

May 23, 2016

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José Leonilson, Rios do Mundo

A delicate map-like composition unfolds across the organic surface of cowhide, where Leonilson traces the world's rivers in fluid, gestural lines that seem to pulse with quiet vulnerability. The natural texture and irregular edges of the animal hide become integral to the work's meaning, blurring boundaries between the geographic and the corporeal, the global and the deeply personal. True to Leonilson's poetic sensibility, the piece transforms cartographic data into an intimate meditation on connection, longing, and the invisible threads that bind distant places and bodies together.

Medium
acrylic on cowhide
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Blue, Acrylic, Symbolic, Conceptual, Brazilian, Mixed Media, Textile, Abstract, Contemporary, Map