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Digital opening<\/a> (in Swedish) Friday June 18th at 6\u20135.30 pm via Facebook Live and YouTube<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The exhibition Leonilson \u2013 Drawn: 1975\u20131993<\/em> is the first major retrospective of Brazilian artist Jos\u00e9 Leonilson (1957\u20131993) in Europe. Leonilson was one of the major exponents of a generation of Brazilian artists known as Gera\u00e7\u00e3o 80 (80s Generation). After the end of Brazil\u2019s military dictatorship in the mid-1980s, this group of artists celebrated their newly acquired freedom with a gestural, colorful, and expressive style of painting. While American Pop Art appropriated the symbols of a highly industrialized society in the 1980s, the Gera\u00e7\u00e3o 80s art was firmly critical of society.<\/p>\n

Leonilson studied art in S\u00e3o Paulo (BR) from 1978 to 1981. Apart from Eva Hesse and Blinky Palermo, both of whom he met during travels in Europe, his first major influence was the Italian transavanguardia movement. Formed in the late 1970s, transavanguardia turned to figuration, ancient mythology, and expressive colouration. Similarly, Leonilson\u2019s paintings and drawings from this period show an eclectic subjectivism and an emblematic visual language. An exhibition of textiles produced by the Shakers, a Christian American sect, marked a key moment in the artist\u2019s early career. The Shaker\u2019s embroidered maps of their estates influenced him greatly and inspired him to embrace fabric as a medium.<\/p>\n

When Leonilson was diagnosed with AIDS in 1991, his visual language changed significantly: between 1991 and 1993, his work, which resembled a diary, betrayed his deteriorating health and a preoccupation with death. Towards the end of his life, he was only able to work with needle, thread, and cloth. In this period, language and abstraction, as well as religious visual and formal language played an important role in Leonilson\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

The retrospective at Malm\u00f6 Konsthall presents a broad range of mediums and styles, from early paintings to the introspective embroidery of Leonilson\u2019s last years, providing an overview of his entire oeuvre. The exhibition is produced by KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, by curator Krist Gruijthuijsen and shown in Berlin from January 2021. The exhibition in Malm\u00f6 is a collaboration with Moderna Museet.<\/p>\n

The exhibition Leonilson \u2013 Drawn: 1975\u20131993<\/em> is Malm\u00f6 Konsthall\u2019s contribution to World Pride 2021, which will take place in both Malm\u00f6 and Copenhagen, and part of the project \u00d6ppna Malm\u00f6 (Open Malm\u00f6) \u2013 an initiative taken by the city of Malm\u00f6 to combat discrimination and racism 2020\u20132022.<\/p>\n

Image: Jos\u00e9 Leonilson.\u00a0Vogue Ideal\u00a0(fanzine), 1976.\u00a0Marker, ballpoint pen, and graphic on paper. Private collection, S\u00e3o Paulo. Photo: Rubens Chiri<\/em><\/p>\n

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An exhibition produced by KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin in collaboration with Moderna Museet, Malm\u00f6 Konsthall and Serralves Foundation \u2013 Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto.\u00a0The exhibition\u00a0<\/span>Leonilson<\/span>: Drawn 1975-1993\u00a0<\/span><\/i>is made possible through the German Federal Cultural Foundation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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