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Leonardo Drew Galerie Lelong 20 May–13 July 2021 13 Rue de Téhéran, Paris
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Leonardo Drew is known for creating abstract and contemplative sculptural works that play with the tension between order and chaos. Simultaneously monumental and intimate, profuse and sensual, his work uses materials from America’s industrial past. Leonardo Drew produces sculptures and installations by arranging accumulations of materials such as wood, scrap metal and cotton to express a variety of emotive themes: from time and the cycle of life, through to decomposition and the effects of erosion. Rich in historical and anthropological references, Drew’s work evokes the urban existence, the relationship between man and nature and Afro-American culture. The artist refuses to give his works a title, in order to allow free interpretation of their meaning.

For his first exhibition in Paris, the artist produced a large mural composition, more than 6 metres in size, using painted wood and assembly on paper. A two-project exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, Connecticut, is planned between June 2021 and January 2022, and a solo show at the Power Plant in Toronto is in preparation for 2024.

His works form part of many public collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Los Angeles, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, and the Tate Gallery in London. He also completed an important project for Madison Square Park in New York in 2019, the artist’s first major public production.

Leonardo Drew was born in 1961 in Tallahassee, Florida and grew up in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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About the Gallery
Galerie Lelong is located in Paris and New York. It was founded by Jacques Dupin, Daniel Lelong and Jean Frémon.

The Paris gallery has been exhibiting recent works from artists of international standing since 1981. The 1980s were notable for artists who went on to become household names, including Joan Miró, Antoni Tàpies, Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois, Eduardo Chillida, Paul Rebeyrolle, Pierre Alechinsky, but also for the next generation of artists: Konrad Klapheck, Jan Dibbets, Donald Judd, Robert Ryman, Richard Serra, Jannis Kounellis, Arnulf Rainer, Nicola De Maria and Jan Voss.

In the 1990s, the gallery hosted artists who represented major movements in contemporary art: Sean Scully, Günther Förg, Andy Goldsworthy, Ernest Pignon-Ernest, Antonio Saura. The gallery also increased international recognition of the work of Ana Mendieta.

Since the turn of the century, Galerie Lelong has accentuated the geographical and expressive diversity of its artists: from sculpture and objects by Jaume Plensa, David Nash, Wolfgang Laib, Kiki Smith, Rebecca Horn, Barry Flanagan to installations by Barthélémy Toguo and Lin Tianmiao, without forgetting painting, namely David Hockney, Robert Motherwell, Kate Shepherd, Nalini Malani, Nancy Spero, Juan Uslé, Leon Kossoff.

Galerie Lelong has a large publishing department which produces and distributes engravings, lithographs, digital prints and multiple objects, and collates these works in catalogues raisonnés.

It produces monumental sculptures to order for public spaces and private clients.

The gallery is present at the leading international contemporary art fairs (Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Basel Hong Kong, Fiac Paris, Frieze London, Frieze New York, Arco Madrid, Art Brussels, Expo Chicago...).

The directors of the gallery are Jean Frémon, Daniel Lelong and Patrice Cotensin in Paris and Mary Sabbatino in New York.
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13 rue de Téhéran
Paris
France
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Tues - Fri, 10.30am - 6pm
Sat, 2pm - 6.30pm
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Paris 13 rue de Téhéran
Galerie Lelong contemporary art gallery in 13 Rue de Teheran Paris France
Galerie Lelong
13 rue de Téhéran, Paris, France
+33 145 631 319
http://www.galerie-lelong.com

Opening hours
Tues - Fri, 10.30am - 6pm
Sat, 2pm - 6.30pm
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