Miart Milano 2019

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

Born in Modena in 1935, architect, designer, photographer, sculptor, Cesare Leonardi embodies the figure of a contemporary artist-humanist.

His career began in a dazzling way, in the 1960s, designing furniture that went down in the history of design, designed together with Franca Stagi.

The two then developed a twenty-year study of trees, their structures and seasonality, producing a series of drawings at the basis of the book The Architecture of Trees (1982).

Leonardi dedicated himself to photography since he was a child and between the 70s and 80s he created series of photographs mounted on panels, to create sequences that highlight a particular compositional rhythm, dictated by the shadows, colors and 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 probe the infinite compositional possibilities inherent in the same module.