Lluís Lleó's work is rooted in a sustained exploration of painting as both image and object. Moving fluidly between painting, sculpture, and installation, his practice considers how material, surface, and space shape our experience of a work. Rather than treating the canvas as a flat support, Lleó builds layered compositions that extend into the architectural space, inviting a physical and spatial encounter.
Drawing on the traditions of fresco painting, he works with pigment, plaster, wax, handmade paper, and natural fibres, allowing each material to retain its own character. His process is slow and cumulative: surfaces are built, scraped back, and reworked until they carry the traces of time and gesture. These material histories become central to the work, suggesting cycles of construction, erosion, and renewal.
Abstraction provides a language through which Lleó reflects on memory, place, and the natural world. His works do not depict landscape directly; instead, they evoke its rhythms, textures, and changing light. Geological formations, vegetation, and architecture all inform compositions that remain open rather than descriptive.
Across his practice, Lleó dissolves the boundaries between painting and sculpture, creating works that engage with the space they inhabit. His interest lies not only in what an artwork represents, but in how it occupies a room, responds to light, and invites the viewer into a slower, more attentive way of looking. Through this dialogue between material, architecture, and nature, Lleó's work reflects on the enduring relationship between human making and the passage of time.