Carlos León Escudero

In 1972, he spent a year in Paris, where he attended the open studios of École des Beaux-Arts and came into contact with the critic Marcelin Pleynet and the painters who published the magazine "Peinture, cahiers théoriques."

In 1991, he left his teaching position and in 1995, he moved back to New York, where he resided and worked until 2002, when he decided to return to Spain, where he has continued his artistic activity to the present day.

His enduring affinity for geometry has remained a constant presence, more or less explicitly, throughout his entire career, becoming more pronounced in the 1970s, in works exhibited at the Gamarra-Garrigues Gallery in '91, and in a significant portion of his recent repertoire.

[2] The layering of painted sheets on translucent supports, the combination of physically distinct elements within a single artwork, the break from certain conventions of the object-canvas, the use of industrial materials, and the application of pigment with his hands constitute his field of work.

One of the outcomes of this fortunate combination is the emergence, in recent years, of a powerful series of sculptural works in which purely object-oriented approaches coexist with concepts revolving around the poetics of the objet trouvé.