LISTENING TO GLENDA LEÓN'S RAIN, AT MAX ESTRELLA
The Madrid-based Max Estrella exhibits in its Project Room space Escuchando la Lluvia (Listening to the Rain), by artist Glenda León (Havana, Cuba, 1976), which also serves as a letter of introduction of the Cuban artist as the gallery's new representative. This piece of enormous stylization is presented as a blown glass sculpture handcrafted by the Royal Glass Factory of La Granja in Segovia that collects a visual representation of a drop of water falling.
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This piece, which was one of the backbones of Leon's solo exhibition at the Museum of Puebla in 2024, has its origin in a dialogue held on the sounds of nature, specifically on the micro-sounds, between the artist and José Luis Brea. In this case, the sound archetype of rain is actually collective, like an accumulation of rumours, that of thousands of drops in their impact against another surface or among themselves.
Micro-attention also seems to be based on this micro-sound, the contemplation in detail of small effects, actions or phenomena to magnify their value and that, as in the case of Escuchando la lluvia, materializes in an aesthetic beauty of a formal nature.
Escuchando la lluvia can be seen until August 1st at Max Estrella Gallery, Santo Tomé Street, 6, Madrid, Spain.