White St. Sebastian

The painterly taste that discreetly animated Gallo's surfaces is, by contrast, a fundamental element, the very root, of the art of Leoncillo, who, through the skilful use of glazes brought to a violent and provocative colouring, tends towards an in-depth intensification of the spatial correspondence of the surfaces. It is precisely the volumetric consistency of colour that binds together the sculptor's disparate formal experiences, from Expressionism to Neo-Cubism to Art Informel. Indeed, in the first ceramics born within the experiences of the Scuola Romana, as in the neo-Picassian structurings such as the celebrated Partisan Woman, and in the present agglomerations of matter, the definition of the outline never corresponds to the actual delimitation of the masses, but is altered by the accentuated vibration of colour.