Badajoz
1994
Leopoldo Mata
(Badajoz, 1994) after finishing his degree in Fine Arts in Cuenca (UCLM), spent several years in Paris where he developed as a tattoo artist, assuming it as an extension of painting. He has developed his aesthetics transgressing the iconography and processes of this from a plastic point of view.
Back in Spain he studied the master Landa (Annual Laboratory to Nourish Artistic Dispersion) in Espositivo, moment in which he resumed his artistic practice as a painter. Although always prioritising his pictorial research, he understands painting as a core project from which to spread into other areas, highlighting his collaboration with the fashion firm Boltad, in which he participates in the intervention of fabrics and prints using airbrushing.
"If there is a pattern that I feel comfortable with in my approach to my work, it is the juxtaposition of different visual languages as a consequence of abandoning ideas halfway through execution that often overlap with other ideas/systems, evoking dispersion and the non-apprehension of any truth. I am interested in creating from the noise and the continuous interruption that characterises our present by including it in the pictorial process; playing with concepts seriously for a while to demolish them later with a sensation, generating a miscellany that speaks of my way of understanding the contemporary world".
Artwork by Leopoldo Mata↗
Back in Spain he studied the master Landa (Annual Laboratory to Nourish Artistic Dispersion) in Espositivo, moment in which he resumed his artistic practice as a painter. Although always prioritising his pictorial research, he understands painting as a core project from which to spread into other areas, highlighting his collaboration with the fashion firm Boltad, in which he participates in the intervention of fabrics and prints using airbrushing.
"If there is a pattern that I feel comfortable with in my approach to my work, it is the juxtaposition of different visual languages as a consequence of abandoning ideas halfway through execution that often overlap with other ideas/systems, evoking dispersion and the non-apprehension of any truth. I am interested in creating from the noise and the continuous interruption that characterises our present by including it in the pictorial process; playing with concepts seriously for a while to demolish them later with a sensation, generating a miscellany that speaks of my way of understanding the contemporary world".
Artwork by Leopoldo Mata↗