Yann Leto: La posibilidad del mundo

Yann Leto was born in Bordeaux and has resided in Spain for a decade excluding the period 2015-16, when he lived and worked in Rome owing to the Scholarship of the Royal Spanish Academy.

He recently made his first solo at The Cabin LA in Los Angeles. Leto is essentially a painter who is free of orthodoxy, so that his messages continually transpire between the installations, creating a language in which hybridization is the key. In an expansive work, boundaries pose as an inconvenience to be eliminated, and thus the iconoclasm and the critique uphold pieces like the controversial ‘Congress Topless’ that drew attention at ARCO 2014.

The use of irony does not trivialize sociopolitical criticism. His dense painting produces images that are conceived as a collage in which the typographical elements coexist with an intense revision of the great classical paintings, where the void of no-paint planes dissipate from the image.

This collage arises from a body of research that compels him to accumulate hard drives saturated with digital files, Google images, press clippings and articles. Regarding this archive –almost sickening– a ‘no rules’ approach of the protagonists is developed, a visual emotional cycle that repositions the human being in a society marked by its restlessness.