Artissima Torino 2018

The Antonio Verolino Gallery offers a monographic stand by the artist Cesare Leonardi.

Architect, designer, photographer, sculptor, Cesare Leonardi embodies the figure of
contemporary artist-humanist. His career began in a dazzling way in the 1960s, designing furniture that went down in design history such as the Dondolo armchair, designed together with Franca Stagi. The two will then develop a twenty-year study on trees, their structures and seasonality, producing a series of drawings at the basis of the book The Architecture of Trees (1982).

Leonardi has dedicated himself to photography since he was a child and between the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s and 2000s he created series of photographs mounted on panels, to create sequences that highlight a particular compositional rhythm, dictated by the shadows, the colours, the shapes of the subjects represented. At the center of his work is an idea of a project on a human scale, in which the relationship with nature becomes increasingly close and necessary and in which
the artisanal aspect marks a departure from serial production, as in the Solidi created since 1983, which explore the infinite compositional possibilities inherent in the same module.