FRANCISCO LEIRO (Cambados, Pontevedra, 1957). "Head chafada". Carved and polychrome wood.

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  FRANCISCO LEIRO (Cambados, Pontevedra, 1957). "Head chafada". Carved and polychrome wood. Measurements: 133 x 37 x 65 cm. "My sculptures are generally blind and deaf. I make human figures, but my formal interest is abstract: to give a form that interests me, that works, that has a balance or an imbalance or a volumetry that produces one sensation or another. To see my sculptures you don't have to look them in the eye, they are to be seen from all angles". This is how sculptor Francisco Leiro defines his sculptural creations. His figures often do not have defined features or tend to schematic reduction, and yet his men and women carved in wood express subtle and intense emotions. The title of this work suggests some kind of psychic damage in this character with the fractured head, being the interpretative indeterminacy what preserves the enigma of his proposal. Leiro began his training at the School of Arts and Crafts in Santiago de Compostela, completing it at the School of Fine Arts in Madrid. He represented Spain in 1985 at the São Paulo Biennial. Since 1986 he has exhibited regularly at ARCO, Madrid. Established in New York in 1988, he began working for the Malbourough Gallery, one of the most prominent contemporary art galleries, a year later. Some of his public works include the figure of a fantastic animal known as Sireno (1991), erected on two green and black polished granite columns in Vigo's Puerta del Sol, a controversial symbol of the city, the Homenaje a Castelao, in the Alameda de Santiago de Compostela (1995), the Batea or Saavedra on the Lérez River in the Parque de la Isla de las Esculturas in Pontevedra, the Astronauta, Valdemoro (Madrid), Vértigo, on the M50 highway in Madrid (2004) and Simeón sentado, in front of Torre Espacio, Madrid. His works are also in collections and contemporary art museums.
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