“From the beginning, the work of Javier León has been located on the boundary between painting and sculpture that goes beyond the flat surface or sculpture that contract into painting. These are abstracts works in which there is a continuous evocation of nature and its rhythms in both the materials and the manner in which they are used.
The transmission of the feelings nature causes in him, the sensations accumulated in his memory, are deposited in the paper in which he usually works. This material has its own energy. Those made with painted, folded and cut- out paper – speak of delicacy and fragility, the ways in which he arranges that multitude of little pieces of paper, of natural rhythms, of germination and growth; structures, rhythms and lights that can later be recognized in a careful examination of nature.”
José A. Yñiguez
SKIN.
At first I was inspired by the way in which the chromatic and lighting effects are generated in the scales on the wings of the butterflies, which can create various colors depending on the way the light is reflected in a microstructure of the surface of the butterflies. scales. This fascinated me when I discovered that its color is not pigment, it is light and I wanted to create something like that, to make a kind of subtle color alchemy with light and white paper. That’s where my first series came from, called SKIN.
