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Fernando Leal Audirac is an Italian visual artist (painter, sculptor, etcher, designer). He is a member of the Transavantgarde movement. He is a specialist of classical painterly techniques, such as fresco, encaustic, egg tempera, oil, that he reinterprets in a contemporary key.

Leal Audirac has participated twice in the Venice Biennale, the first one in the Centennial in 1995 and the second one in 2001. He has shown his works in galleries and museums in the US, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Hungary, Rumania, Korea and South America. He has also participated as lecturer and academic tutor for several institutions in the Americas and in Europe. He has written numerous essays on art and literature and participated in several international symposiums regarding art, science and environment organized by the European Environmental Tribunal. He lives and works in Milan.

Exhibitions

 * Personal Exhibitions (selected)
 * 1986 Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City
 * 1991 Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City
 * 1992 Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City
 * 1992 Galería Hakim Arte Actual, Mexico City
 * 1993 Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
 * 1994 José Luis Cuevas Museum, Mexico City
 * 1994 Instituto Italo-Latinoamericano, Rome
 * 1994 Casa del Mantegna, Mantua
 * 1995 Centro Culturale de México, Paris
 * 1996 Galleria Manzoni, Milan
 * 1996 Galerie Signum Winfried Heid, Heidelberg
 * 1997 Gallery M - 13, New York City
 * 1998 Muzeul Naţional de Artă al României, Rumania
 * 1999 Galleria Arte 92, Milan
 * 1999 Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea della Rocca di Umbertide, Umbertide
 * 1999 Galerie des BBK Braunschweig
 * 2000 Howard Scott Gallery, New York City
 * 2001 Civica Galleria d'arte moderna, Spoleto
 * 2002 José Luis Cuevas Museum, Mexico City
 * 2003 Max-Planck-Institut für Infektionsbiologie, Berlin
 * 2004 Howard Scott Gallery, New York City
 * 2004 Galleria Arte 92, Milan
 * 2008 Spazio Dante 14, Milan
 * 2009 Galerie Art Seefeld, Zürich.
 * 2010 Galerie Art Seefeld, Zürich.


 * Collective Exhibitions (selected)
 * 1992 Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main
 * 1993 Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
 * 1994 Galerie Hakim, Brussels
 * 1994 International Art Exhibition, Seoul
 * 1994 Galerie 1900 - 2000, Paris
 * 1995 Art Multiple Fair, Düsseldorf
 * 1995 MIart, Milan
 * 1995 Forum Artis Museum, Montese
 * 1995 Biennale, Venice
 * 1996 Fiera d' Arte Bologna, Galeria Diagonal, Bologna
 * 1996 Galleria Giorgio Upiglio, Milan
 * 1996 M-13 Gallery, New York
 * 1996 Miami Art Fair, Afinsa Almirante Gallery, Miami
 * 1996 Paolo Pini Museum of Art, Milan
 * 1997 ARCO Madrid, Galeria de Arte Mexicano, Madrid
 * 1998 Palazzo Ducale, Genoa
 * 1999 Spazio Montenero, Milan
 * 1999 Palazzo dei Sette, Orvieto
 * 2000 Museo José Luis Cuevas, Mexico City
 * 2000 Galleria Arte 92, Milan
 * 2001 Schloss Heidelberg, Heidelberg
 * 2001 Biennale, Venice
 * 2001 Galleria Le bureau des esprits, Turin
 * 2002 Galería Drexel, Monterrey, Mexico
 * 2006 Fagus-Gropius Museum, Alfeld (Leine)
 * 2007 Vittoriale, Gardone Riviera
 * 2007 Castello Estense, Ferrara
 * 2008 Castel S.Angelo, Rome

Literature

 * Monographies
 * Juan Acha: El antirretrato del Dr. Villanueva : ocho oleos de Fernando Leal Audirac = The anti-portrait of Dr. Villanueva. Eight oil paintings by Fernando Leal Audirac. Critical essay by Juan Acha. Galeria de Arte Mexicano, Mexico 1991.
 * Fernando Leal Audirac: Obra de 1975 a 1993. Texts by: Richard Brettell, Juan Acha, Jorge Juanes, Ernesto de la Peña, Alberto Híjar, Arturo González Cosío. Espejo de Obsidiana, México 1993. ISBN 968-6258-32-9
 * Fernando Leal Audirac: La stagione che rimane. Opere 1993-2003. A cura di Martina Corgnati. Texts by Martina Corgnati, Lorella Giudici, Marc Dachy, Gianluca Marziani and Jorge Juanes. Silvana Editoriale (Milano) 2003.
 * Fernando Leal Audirac: La monumentalidad de lo íntimo. Vorwort von Gabriel Bernal Granados, UNAM-El Equilibrista, Mexiko-Stadt 2007.

Various international critics and intellectuals have written extensively on his work, such as Pierre Restany, Richard Brettell, Fernando Savater, Juan Acha, Ron Allenberger, Jorge Juanes, Ernesto de la Peña, Alberto Híjar, Martina Corgnati, Lorealla Giudici, Marc Dachy, Enrico Mascelloni, Gianluca Marziani.
 * Exhibition Catalogues

Weblinks

 * Homepage von Fernando Leal Audirac
 * Fernando Leal Audirac at Art Seefeld Galerie
 * Informationen über Fernando Leal Audirac
 * “The Invisible Cat” Blog