Through a wide variety of media, the work of Leonel Salguero (Ciudad Obregón, MX 1989) is concerned with the tension and erosion between the ordinary and the unexpected, as well as the life of everyday objects.
Oil on canvas
40 × 50 cm (15 ¾ × 19 ⅝ inches)
Oil on canvas
40 × 50 cm (15 ¾ × 19 ⅝ inches)
Oil on canvas
50 × 40 cm (19 ⅝ × 15 ¾ inches)
Pink candle, 2022
Oil on canvas
50 × 40 cm (19 ⅝ × 15 ¾ inches)
The simplicity of his execution and composition, along with his humorous and minimal approach to painting, drawing, and sculpture, often results in a depiction of improbable and uncanny landscapes, characters and objects, often attributing anthropomorphic characteristics to household items, tools, vegetables, animals and toys.
Oil on canvas
30 × 40 cm (11 ¾ × 15 ¾ inches)
Oil on canvas
40 × 50 cm (15 ¾ × 19 ⅝ inches)
Oil on canvas
25 × 20 cm (9 ⅞ × 7 ⅞ inches)
Oil on canvas
25 × 20 cm (9 ⅞ × 7 ⅞ inches)
Leonel Salguero lives and works in Mexico City. In 2013 he obtained a BFA from the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado La Esmeralda. Recent exhibitions include: “After Time After”, Galería Agustina Ferreyra, San Juan (2022); Leonel Salguero and Heather Guertin -“SIEMBRA”, kurimanzutto, CDMX (2021); Liste with Galería Agustina Ferreyra, Basel (2020); “A Watched Pot Never Boils: Meditations on Food and Time”, Galería Agustina Ferreyra, (2020); “Format Mondial”, Artemis Fontana, Paris, (2019); “Cold Pleasure, Warm Touch”, Peana, Monterrey (2019); “Kaviar”, Lagos, CDMX (2019); “Pintura Fresca”, Edison 137, CDMX (2019); “Residency Exhibition”, Lagos, CDMX (2019); “Nuevo Manifiesto de Cine Mexicano”, Lodos Gallery (2018); “Cerrajería”, Lockup International, CDMX (2018); “Mutualistic Symbiosis”, sodA, CDMX (2018); and “Todo lo (fshlw) sólido (plsh-plop) se desvanece (rrwrrwrrw, plsh) en el aire”, 5to piso, CDMX (2017).