{"id":10996,"date":"2018-07-24T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/?p=10996"},"modified":"2018-07-26T10:55:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T10:55:01","slug":"mi-horizonte-es-mi-vertical-en-memoria-al-artista-visual-leonardo-sanz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/mi-horizonte-es-mi-vertical-en-memoria-al-artista-visual-leonardo-sanz\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0\u201cMy Horizon is My Vertical Line:\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 In Memory of Dominican Visual Artist Leonardo Sanz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Santo Domingo, July 24, 2018 \u2013 <\/strong>The first exhibit in memoriam<\/em>, in honor of local artist Leonardo Sanz, titled \u201cMy Horizon is My Vertical Line,<\/strong>\u201d consisting of works from the collections of Mario Mart\u00ednez Fern\u00e1ndez, Argenis V\u00e1squez, Fernando B\u00e1ez Guerrero and Ernestina Medrano Sanz, opened in Shanell Galer\u00eda de Arte<\/em>, situated on the second floor of the Malec\u00f3n Center Building (Local 201-B), on George Washington Avenue, Santo Domingo\u2019s seaside boulevard.<\/p>\n

The exhibit was held to commemorate the first anniversary of the passing of Dominican plastic artist Leonardo Sanz.\u00a0 Some 40 of his works, including paintings, drawings and various objects produced during his short yet fruitful career are currently on exhibit.<\/p>\n

According to art critic\/curator and director of the Dominican Museum of Modern Art, Amable L\u00f3pez Mel\u00e9ndez \u2013 who is also the exhibit\u2019s curator and museographer – Sanz\u00a0managed to define and materialize a personal visual universe through his artistic creations (paintings, drawings and murals) that, from the very beginning of his exquisite creations relating to delirium – until the early stages of his most mature processes – immediately attracted the attention of serious gallerists, collectors and specialists of contemporary art in Santo Domingo.<\/p>\n

He also added: \u201cLoving. Irreverent. Never disrespectful. Inspiring, warm and fraternal. Always in a good mood.\u00a0 Bohemian yet elegant.\u00a0 Blessed with a personality marked by his sensibility and humanistic thinking. Beginning in his adolescent years, Leonardo Sanz was known for his exceptional creative talent.\u00a0 He managed to materialize with admirable virtuosity his visions, ideas, as well as more intimate feelings and perceptions through his paintings, drawings, designs, installations, urban art and creative craftsmanship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of the works exhibited are: \u201cEl cuarto de la lujuria\u201d (2006); \u201cEn cualquier Parte de mi ciudad\u201d (2011); \u201cEquilibristas en el Caribe\u201d (2013); \u201cCazadores de energ\u00eda\u201d (2013 y 2014);\u00a0\u00a0\u201cRecordando dentro de mi\u201d (2015);\u00a0\u00a0\u201cCazadores de energ\u00eda (2011); \u201cLa lujuria (2012); \u201cUn mensaje del universo a la tierra\u201d (2015); \u201cBarry Gold\u201d (2015); \u201cFrutos de oro\u201d (2016); \u201cEl coleccionista\u201d (2016); \u201cTres caras\u201d (2016); \u201cPsicotostel (2016)\u201d;\u00a0\u00a0\u201cBachata\u201d (2017)<\/em> and from the \u201cSerie de las batallas (2017).\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Luis Felipe Cartagena, director of Shanell Galer\u00eda de Arte<\/em>, pointed out that the exhibit will be open to the public until mid-August.<\/p>\n

Leonardo Sanz was born in Santo Domingo where he began his art studies in 1983 with Rosa del Carmen Pellerano Lamarche (his grandmother), and later continued with Leonardo Sanz Delgado, an engineer and architect. \u00a0Both graduated from the Palace of Fine Arts. He specialized in architectural drawings and later, from the Altos de Chav\u00f3n<\/em> Art School, in Plastic Arts. In 1992 he moved to Japan, to the city of Aomori, where he studied ink drawing with Professor Oushija.<\/p>\n

Between 1993\u20131994 he became a member of the Prats Vent\u00f3s-Shum Prats workshops.\u00a0 He then worked as an illustrator for various ad agencies and magazines.\u00a0 In 1998 he began to work at the Office of Cultural Patrimony in its Restoration Center.<\/p>\n

During his professional trajectory, his works were purchased by collectors from Italy, France, Holland, Denmark, Russia, Spain and the United States, among other nations.<\/p>\n

Sanz died on Thursday, July 2017, in a traffic accident in a local highway.<\/p>\n\t