IN-SIDE | OUT-SIDE
Never stop improving…
Ernesto Leon
Date
Nov 18, 2020
Venue
1330 Enclave Pkwy
Houston, TX 77077
Ernesto Leon surprises us with fantastical assemblages bringing to light monolithic-totemic sculptures conceived and built from a neo-narrative using dots and lines, reusing recycled materials and incorporating photography.
Displaying his geometric proposal in the form of ‘suajes’ (die cuts), folds and cuts on stacked corrugated cardboard boxes, Leon introduces a series of daring structures that, although aesthetically invite the viewer to investigate the relationship of their materiality and excessive consumption in modern life, its sonorous aspect startles highlighting birdsongs as a metaphor for freedom interrupted in a disintegrating civilization.
Throughout confinement, the concept of Lar, as a formal structure, has expanded. Thus, all activity – that arose outside of it – has been confined to occur inside of it. Such inclusion provides a new reading and value to the concept-idea of this space destined to be inhabited as a venue, both because of the new bonds and by the fragmented intimacy experienced by its members and promoted by a new lifestyle in which a social contact is through virtual spaces created by “cybernetic windows”.
As a metaphor, “La Pajarera” or Lar de las aves (Birds’ nest), exalts the interrupted flight, the new windows of interaction and the quest for freedom.
Ernesto Leon
“Inside – Outside series”
Intervened postal card mounted on vintage frame
8” x 3”
2020
Ernesto Leon
“Inside – Outside series”
Intervened Wooden crating with black & white cardboard
60” x 60”
2020
Ernesto Leon
Esferas y un Triángulo
La Pajarera series
Painted iron
32” x 12” x 6”
2019
Ernesto Leon
Structure series
Cardboard, variable measurements
*can be made in iron and/or stainless steel
Ernesto Leon
Structure series
Cardboard, variable measurements
*can be made in iron and/or stainless steel
Ernesto Leon
Structure series
Cardboard, variable measurements
*can be made in iron and/or stainless steel
Ernesto Leon
Structure series
Cardboard, variable measurements
*can be made in iron and/or stainless steel
Ernesto Leon
Structure series
Cardboard, variable measurements
*can be made in iron and/or stainless steel
Ernesto Leon
Structure series
Cardboard
12” x 12” x 197”
*can be made in iron and/or stainless steel
Ernesto Leon
La Pajarera
Cardboard Structure
Artist’s sketches + two unsigned photographs, Ed 1/3 + 2ap
18” x 24” x 126”
2020
Ernesto Leon
Structure series
Cardboard, variable measurements
*can be made in iron and/or stainless steel
Ernesto Leon
Inside – Outside series
Intervened –to wall- assembly cardboard
32” x 52”
2020
Ernesto Leon
Inside – Outside series
Assembly cardboard
31” x 24”
2020
Ernesto Leon
Inside – Outside series
Photograph and assembly cardboard
12” x 12”
2016 – 2020
Ernesto Leon
Inside – Outside series
Photograph and assembly cardboard
12” x 12”
2016 – 2020
Ernesto Leon
Inside – Outside series
Photograph and assembly cardboard
12” x 12”
2016 – 2020
Ernesto Leon
Inside – Outside series
Photograph and assembly cardboard
12” x 12”
2016 – 2020
Ernesto Leon
Inside – Outside series
Photograph and assembly cardboard
12” x 12”
2016 – 2020
Ernesto Leon
Inside – Outside series
Photograph and assembly cardboard
12” x 18”
2016 – 2020
Ernesto Leon
Inside – Outside series
Photograph and assembly cardboard
12” x 18”
2016 – 2020
Ernesto Leon
Inside – Outside series
Photograph and assembly cardboard
12” x 12”
2016 – 2020
Ernesto Leon
Structure series
Photograph, Printed on semi-gloss paper
24” x 16”, Ed 1/3 + 2 ap, 2020
Ernesto Leon
Structure series
Intervened photograph, Printed on aluminum
24” x 36”, 2020
Ernesto Leon
Structure series
Photograph, printed on aluminum
24” x 36”, 2020
Ernesto Leon
Structure series
Photograph, Printed on semi-gloss paper
24” x 16”, Ed 1/3 + 2 ap, 2020
Ernesto Leon
Structure series
Photograph, Printed on semi-gloss paper
24” x 16”, Ed 1/3 + 2 ap, 2020
Ernesto Leon
La Pajarera series
Vídeo, 2.5 min (video loop)
Ed 1/3 + 2 ap, 2020