Leonilson por Antonio Dias

by José Leonilson

Exhibition which brings together 38 drawings and paintings by Leonilson (1957-1993) that belonged to his friend Antonio Dias (1944-2018). Almost all of the works are from the 1980s. The exception is the painting the library; the mirror ʺ, December 1992, with a dedication to Antonio Dias, and sent by Leonilson along with a letter in 1993, shortly before his death. The idea of the exhibition came up in October 2015, in Fortaleza, when Antonio Dias was preparing his solo show Galeria Multiarte. "Antonio (Dias) used to mention how that young artist, just arrived at his place in Milan, was...