Leonardo Nierman-The Sound of Colour
Leonardo Nierman (b.1932) Mexico
"Leonardo Nierman is the greatest living abstract painter in Latin America. For over forty years this "Jackson Pollock" of Mexico has been celebrated by museums and connoisseurs the world over for his cosmic "landscapes" which brilliantly fuse the inner world of the soul and the mind's eye with the stellar universe. "
Eclipse I
Скульптуры,гобелены ,картины
(подробно в след.постах)
Eclipse II
Aurora Borealis
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Serenade
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Биография (на официальном сайте)
"My parents migrated to Mexico in the mid-twenties. My father came from Lithuania and my mother from Ukraine, and they met here. They arrived penniless.
Clara Mendelejis worked as a cashier in a bakery and Chanel Nierman was an inspector in a bus line; some time later, he ended up starting a small jacket factory, which is what he did for the rest of his life.
Leonardo Nierman Mendelejis, the only child of the couple, was born in Mexico City on November 1st 1932. He started taking private violin lessons as a child and attended the Music Conservatory for a brief period. He was sure that music was his fate; for a long time painting did not move him."(с)
""(Leonardo Nierman is the greatest living abstract painter in Latin America. For over forty years this "Jackson Pollock" of Mexico has been celebrated by museums and connoisseurs the world over for his cosmic "landscapes" which brilliantly fuse the inner world of the soul and the mind's eye with the stellar universe. Shortly after graduating with a degree in physics and mathematics from National University of Mexico in 1951, Nierman undertook studies of the psychology of color, the harmony of both static and moving forms in space, and the relationship between abstract art and the cosmic phenomena. His first major work was a grand mural at the National University of Mexico, and since that time his works havebeen acquired into public collections spanning the globe.Music, the artist's primary inspiration, is reflected both in the movement of his compositions and in the ghostly violins that fade in and out of the swirling paint. Formerly lead violinist for the Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Leonardo Nierman regards music as the highest art form. In the face of his creative vision, his humility is revealed when he states "Music can transport you in a few seconds to a flamenco experience in Granada, Spain or can seat you at a banquet in Elizabethan England or medieval France. It can project you into time, into any country, any culture. Nothing can do that better than music." As audience to Nierman's magnificent visual concertos, we soon learn that he is in fact a master at moving us from spirited flight to the depths of the earth's molten core. Then again, Nierman's lushly rendered, textural surfaces and hot-to-cool ochre and sky-blue palette can be seen as conceptual landscapes which fuse the seismic, volcanic terrain of great Mexico--its flames, smoke, rugged lava beds and swirling tropical skies--with the art of painting itself. Nierman hearkens back to his Mexican predecessors, as well as to the modern lessons of cubism and modernist internationalism, combining western artistic revolutions. Nierman's work, not only thematically but physically, seems to query over and over, what is man's connection to the cosmos; how are we united with the heavens; what is a creature, what is a heavenly body? How are they different; how the same? Where are we going together? "(с)
In 1972, he had a major exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City and from that time on has had exhibition venues throughout the world including the United States, Italy, Israel, Australia, Spain and Japan.