Rio de Janeiro Fish Eye posters Print

Leonardo Viana is a painter-designer, born in the North-East of Brazil. He learned to draw and paint on his own. He likes to see his entourage in a unique way and he follows drawing and painting courses to improve his technique. This would allow him to add essential knowledge that will refine his graphic and figurative style. During his youth, he learned the techniques of digital art, which he mixed with plastic arts. Through his art, he offers a critical unity of digital technologies and the challenges of modern life. He have lived 14 years in Rio de Janeiro and he was Creative director for advertising agencies and design. His work is strongly inspired by Pop-Art universes. In 2010, he made a group exhibition with several of these acrylic paintings. One of the works main shows the ambivalence of the city, amidst the splendor of nature and violence. Symbolized for the presence of zippers sewn on the board, they started the way in which the the inhabitants of the village feel held hostage by this violence. He thus began to reproduce these works on screen printing and he became passionate about this technique. He lives today in France, inspired by their culture, he reproduces the city ​​and its characters. Particularly interested in depicting villages, the product of a series of large-scale drawings as if looking at the city from a height with a camera lens Big angle. With the series "Famous People" he uses his graphic know-how to revisit the portraits of famous artists.