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Leila Pugnaloni - 2014

Original drawing done in ink on paper

29,00 cm height x 21,00cm width x 0,10 cm depth

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Leila Pugnaloni

“Art is one of the many forms of knowledge; an act of conscience and perception of reality that will only be complete if it is able to generate in the viewer some form of reflection, of curiosity”

French painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor Henri Matisse used to argue: “We need to know how to preserve the freshness and innocence that a child has when it comes into contact with a Thing; we have to continue to be children for our whole life, and at the same time be a man who captures his energy from the Things of the world.”

Matisse is considered to be one of the most significant expressions of avant-garde art in the 20^th century. It’s no coincidence that he is also one of the major artistic references that has guided the career of Leila Pugnaloni, who works in both drawing and painting with the same liberty that she peddles her bicycle every morning to do daily tasks – a practice that ensures she preserves her ‘freshness and innocence’.

She likes to explain her drawing as being, on the one hand, more emotive, confessional; and on the other hand, her painting, as deliberately mental, reflexive. Born in Rio de Janeiro, she lived part of her infancy in Brasília, where her father worked as an architect – and this multiplicity of scenarios gave her a rich visual and affective memory both for the built elements of a city that was growing from a blueprint, and also for elements of Rio, a city with seascapes and sun, full of curves. Later, an internship in New York (USA)) would bring other references that would become part of her process: not only Matisse, but Mondrian, Volpi, the Brazilian concretists and neo-concretists, Ione Saldanha, Hélio Oiticica and many others.

Her drawing uses both the minimum and the maximum of graphical resources – variations in thickness and continuity of line, deformations of perspective, of the proportions of figures – perfectly creating the atmosphere in the drawing

The influences of Brazilian constructivist art took on enormous importance in her career and thought, especially in painting. Her drawing uses both the minimum and the maximum of graphical resources – variations in thickness and continuity of line, deformations of perspective, of the proportions of figures, singular visualizations – perfectly creating the atmosphere in the drawing. She uses many pens – from fine Nan-King pen on paper to bamboo sticks and old-fashioned feather quills. The human figure is the recurring subject of her drawings: the human body and its possibilities of movement, its expression in response to life, but: “I work with other themes,” she says, “such as interiors of wooden houses, landscapes, vegetables, or anything that arouses my sensitivity.”

Her line work is of an essence – conveying minimal information – suggesting drafts that will be completed by the viewer’s eyes and brain, in which the figure has lines that insinuate volumes that don’t exist, but are filled in automatically by the viewer’s vision. In the words of art critic Nilza Procopiak in a 2006 comment on her work, “when the viewer is induced to complete the shapes, he is not conscious that the author of the drawing is making him an accomplice, since he has to employ his own brain and his own visual perception to complete the work, as if it was a game that Leila was challenging him, with a smile, to play.”

She currently lives in Curitiba, Paraná. She studied at the Escola de Belas Artes of Paraná, at the Parque Lage Visual Arts School in Rio, and in New York at the Art Students League of New York. Since 1980 she has had more than 25 solo exhibitions, and taken part in more than 40 important group shows, such as the Third Mercosul Biennale. She has won awards in various art salons, including the Paraná Contemporary Art Salon. In 2003 Fernando Bini launched a book about her, Leila Pugnaloni, O Passeio do Olhar (A Look Takes a Trip); and in 2007, she published her book Desenhos (Drawings). Her works are in the collections of the Contemporary Art Museum of Paraná, the Oscar Niemeyer Museum, the Museu de Arte do Rio de Janeiro, the Curitiba cultural Foundation, the National Library of Rio de Janeiro, and in private collections in Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Rio, and New York.

Her summary: “Art is one of the many forms of knowledge; an act of conscience and perception of reality that will only be complete if it is able to generate in the viewer some form of reflection, of curiosity.”

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