GLENDA LEÓN RECEIVES DKV AWARD AS EMERGING ARTIST WITH THE BEST GALLERY EXHIBITION
The artist received the award from the Spanish insurance company for the work Mirage II, from the Mecánica Celeste exhibition. The work of Glenda León affects with sensitivity and poetic acuity in that need of the human being (following Ernst Fischer) to complete its individuality. In this search for intimate nature, she resorts to exploring the Nature that surrounds us.
Mecánica Celeste (Blue Mechanics), which could be seen at Galería Senda (Barcelona) from November 2019 to January 2020, proposed a metamorphic journey in which the dust of butterfly wings and their transmutation into galaxies became a pretext to reflect on Nature , its strength and presence as part of that indissoluble Whole to which we belong.
Glenda León (b. 1976, Havana, Cuba) lives and works in Havana and Madrid. Her work ranges from drawing to video art, including installation, sculpture and photography. León invites the viewer to approach the object from a poetic perspective. To accomplish this, the artist uses ordinary objects and raw materials and transforms them in ways that reveal her metaphorical power. In this way, the works show a sensitive look at the everyday. The constancy in the absence of all superfluous elements and the fusion of artificial and natural elements, demonstrate the author's taste for persistence in the processes. Her works move between the sphere of the intimate and the public, which shows her capacity to create new meanings through the process of contextualization, manipulation and association of objects.
The award ceremony by DKV is part of DKV ARTERIA, through which the company promotes different actions aimed at promoting artistic creation as a means of communication and expression, a health engine and a way to enhance personal development. The initial fascination is a powerful activator of reflections on the lightness and brevity not only of human life, but also on the gravity and duration that our actions produce in nature. The art in the DKV Collection plays an important role as a means of establishing a balance between man and the surrounding world.
