Leoncillo, works on paper 1955-1968

Introduction

The last decade of Leoncillo’s activity is not only characterized by his best-known corpus of sculptures, but also by a large number of works on paper that are distinguished from those previously performed not only in terms of language, now aniconic. They are, in fact, “mixed techniques” characterized by encrustations of enamels, cuts made on layers, overlapping of sheets of different consistency, lumps of matter no less mastered than in sculptures. The subjects are the same as those of the contemporary sculptures. Leoncillo was always a designer of great quality and constant commitment, but in these works he operated a linguistic short circuit, where the graphic aspect was transformed into sculptural modeling and vice versa.