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Leandro Escalotti is a renowned modern artist. His work mostly deals with abstract paintings although his artistic concerns often lead him to more impressionistic ways of expression.

His paintings are acrylic and usually of large size, mainly of 250x200x6 centimeters / 98x78x2,4 inches.

In Leandro Escalotti's own words, “art is a reflection of the past and the present”. According to the artist, “all of us leave a certain mark in our lives, to a certain extent. However, the importance or permanence of said trace will depend on how well we forge our marks”. As such, with his philosophy as a starting point, Leandro Escalotti searches for perfection and shares his “marks” with the whole world.

Leandro Escalotti has undertaken to share his paintings internationally. The artist's sole mission in each of his works is to get to the very essence of the individual, to be able to understand what makes us human, while at the same time provoking the minds of those who are witness to his works.

Recent Works:

His most recent international collection, called Claritas ‘13, is comprised of 7 large and textured paintings. Each one of them deals with a separate subject, although taken together the said subjects form a unitary whole, that is, the artist's main concerns regarding the zeitgeist of the ever-changing modern world.



- Potestas This painting is a full-blown expression of agressivity and power, abstract and limitless, without bounds of any sort, like a coming storm. Authority embodied in its purest form, with the colour red as a portrait of unlimited strength, unsettling in all its chaos.



- Splendoribus This painting ('splendor') depicts light, however small, as a symbol of hope; a glimmer of hope, that is, which sometimes tends to lie in the outside and come from the unlikeliest of places.



- Liberati As its own title implies, this painting is an ode to freedom, a reflection of nature's deepest desires to escape its own confines and limitations, as expressed by the hazy white horse that tries to unchain itself from its dominant surroundings.



- Tempus sistit The slow, inevitable passing of time according to today's technology-controlled world: “buffering” as the new expression of the agony of each passing second, set against an empty background that expresses the anxiety that fills us all while waiting for the expected moment.



- Societas As a reflection of our most basic form of identity, this rich and textured painting goes back in time and shows us how it was expressed in prehistoric times, showing us that mankind's need for expression is inherent and necessary to expose our needs and desires; to show, after all, who we are.



- Progressus The painting may indicate a sort of manifestation of success and growth, but the black background invites us to think otherwise: what is the human cost of it all? There is always a dark side to power, and in any case the line could be interpreted as a fracture, a breach.

- Ratio Clearly inspired by the works of Rothko, this hypnotic painting is a depiction of controlled violence, a violence which could unleash itself any second with unforeseeable consequences, bound only by a surrounding thin line of black.