Leonardo Anker Vandal
THE WORK HAS BECOME A CREATURE WITHIN ME, SOMETHING UNBORN THAT KEEPS EVOLVING. IT IS A CONSTANT PRESENCE OF SHADOWS LURING, SOMETHING IMPALED TO THE VERY SKIN THAT I’M SWEPT IN.
Leonardo Anker Vandal is an emerging multidisciplinary artist. His work, which spans a variety of mediums such as painting, sculpture, installation and writing, is infused with deep nostalgia and melancholy. Vandal’s work is profoundly introspective and serves as a form of catharsis: in his monochrome paintings and sculptures, Vandal works through the personal traumas of his early years. He transforms these experiences into a highly individual visual and poetic language that is both enigmatic and emotionally moving. With this language, he creates a world where presence and absence, being free and being trapped, reality and illusion collide, inviting the viewer to lose oneself in it.