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Leonardo Moyano

Bio

Leonardo Moyano studied at the Instituto Superior Tecnológico de Artes del Ecuador (ITAE) and the Universidad de las Artes de Guayaquil (2019). He obtained second place in the October Hall of the Casa de la Cultura Núcleo del Guayas (2012); the second prize of the Festival de Artes al Aire Libre (FAAL) in 2015; the second and third prize of the Salón de Julio of the Municipality of Guayaquil in 2016 and 2017 respectively; and, in 2018 he obtained 1st place in the Salón de Machala. In 2016 he held his first solo show “Campos de contemplación” in 2016; in 2017, "Gulag" at the DPM gallery (Guayaquil-Ecuador); and, in 2018 presents "Líneas Vacías" in the MAAC (Guayaquil-Ecuador). In the same year, he participated in the PARC Contemporary Art Fair and the Cha.Co fair as an artist selected by galería +ARTE. He was a guest artist at the DPM Gallery in Guayaquil between 2016 and 2017. He is a member of the art collective “Chivox”. During his participation as an artist in the VIOLENTA gallery, he participated in the ArtLima 2019 fair where he was awarded the Ca.Sa. In this same year he carried out the individual exhibition "Crónicas", at the + ARTE gallery (Quito-Ecuador). His latest show, "Otro lugar" (2021), is performed together with Ignacio Alvaro at the Impakto gallery (Lima-Peru). He is a guest artist at the Impakto gallery and is currently co-director of the gallery Taller Maldonado (Guayaquil-Ecuador). Lives and works in Guayaquil.

Statement

In my production I propose relationships with space, time, the archive, with documentation of ruins and events from other uninhabited spaces. I propose a deconstruction that at the same time generates a harmony within the space, resulting in the creation of a non-place. From components extracted from other fields, I develop a study of urban archeology. I take as protagonists existing places in the city, which have indirectly become ignored or degraded spaces. Places with which, based on my proposal, I aim to produce a dialogue between the significant load of each of the elements.
I place a confrontation between construction and deconstruction. I analyze how in history a real and unreal delimitation has been seen, generating means of separation from one state to another. How a wall, physical or imaginary, can separate us and even create a status or determine valid factors only in the human subconscious.
I group elements belonging to complex social codes, be it an uncertain scenario due to its spatial indeterminacy or its understood uninhabitability, or the presence of a sign of constant vigilance, which manages to generate thoughts towards the function of each of the characters within an elaborate social construction. Places, buildings, events and characters that strip their identity and thus manage to enter into a generalized discussion of all these events generated in the contemporary platform.
Currently my research is directed or focused on questioning myself or trying to understand how a territory is composed or what it is, how we use it who and for whom it is, is it uninhabitable or not, how these territories become countries, or borders, such as they are consolidated as a state, When trying to fragment the imaginary in the officers. In this way, I try to make evident imaginary limits located by the human being in their habitat, conflicting these spaces in such a way that actions are seen.

Leonardo Moyano
Title: Ciudadela
Serie: Fachada
Medium: Instalación. Políptico, acrílico pan de oro sobre lona. Alambre de púas
Year: 2021
Dimensions: 100 x 250 x 10 cm
Price: US$ 4,500.00
Wall reference
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in

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Ciudadela

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