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Carmelo Leone was born in Lecce in 1954 and is approaching the world of sculpture as a self-taught artist.
Ranging from processing of the clay to the wood -which focuses on the hypnotic veining of the olive tree- to the stone ‘pietra leccese’ found only in Lecce, which was used by both his grandfather, as a stone carver, and his son, a sculptor.
Carmelo’s Eclectic style of figurative art with strong examples of realistic virtuosity, takes an introspective personal journey.
As a keen observer of reality, he connotes objects of daily use with soul and identity in a way that the revisited object conveys feelings and emotions that inspired its creator.
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“…With his sculpted reality, Carmelo Leone discovers the bitter aftertaste of capitalist civilization and brings it to light with humor by unusual manner of execution, deeply steeped in sociological messages. His artistic direction wheel, in fact, around the exasperation parody of capitalist reality, which bears witness to the refusal human maturing more and more the need for independence from institutional models. His is surreal chronicle of a world adrift…”
Sabrina Falzone – Critic and Historian
“…Amazing and fun sculptor Carmelo Leone with his works, ironic and linked to the object as a symbol of life. Leccese born Carmelo has in itself a key to understanding contemporary life and disenchanted with the newspaper and its references to consumerism in which we are accustomed to live, are well expressed by “disorientating” coloristic interpretations, hyper-realist, of what represents us…”
Francesca Mariotti – Critic and Historian
“…Carmelo Leone frome Lecce, finally, offers very tasty irony and technical daily presence, desecrated by the power of mimesis and consecrated to the strength of the material of which they are made. A game very fine forever poised between opposing tensions and renewed vigor.”
Gianni Cerioli – il Resto del Carlino (Ferrara)
On “LuMoka”
“…This sculpture, from the pure concept of the volume, reaches a state of equilibrium. His disarming realism is opposed by the elegance and lightness of aesthetic created by a poet of the absurd and ironic.”
Lidia Silanos – Critic and Historian
