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FOREWORD
The new series of Francesca Leone’s large-scale emotional portraits is
presented at Opera Gallery London for the reopening of the art season, after
all the hubbub of the Olympic Games and the summer period.
It is with great pleasure that we exhibit the work of a committed artist whose
relentless search for emotion and humanity goes deep under the skin of her
subjects.
The passion within the layers of paint, the intensity of the close-ups, the power
of the brushstrokes and the mastered technique of representation…all these
elements take Francesca Leone’s work a big step further than traditional
portraiture, and make her work so eye-catching to a public of art lovers and
emotion seekers.
When I asked Francesca why she chose to represent her subjects as if
drenched under litres of water, she replied: “For the vulnerability. When
someone is thrown water at, they lose all self-control, all façade protection.
The water washes everything away and the only thing that is left is the raw
and true human nature”.
This exhibition is therefore much more than a painting display; it is truly an
exhibition of the human, a series of paintings depicting the souls behind the faces.
We are very proud to provide the walls that will bear these souls for the time
of an exceptional show.
Jean-David Malat
Director
Opera Gallery London
Gilles Dyan
Founder and Chairman
Opera Gallery Group
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