Krist Gruijthuijsen Knihy

From an intimate figuration to tender, melancholic embroidery: the brief but brilliant career of Leonilson in Europe and Brazil Leonilson (1957-93), also known as José Leonilson, emerged as a seminal figure of the Brazilian contemporary art world in the 1980s. He traveled extensively throughout Europe, where his paintings, drawings and installations were featured in solo and group shows in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain, alongside the numerous exhibitions held in Brazil. In 1991, the artist tested positive for HIV. This diagnosis compelled a decisive shift in his career, as Leonilson began to develop his intimate embroideries, a practice he continued until his death in 1993 at the age of 36. Drawn: 1975-1993 is the first comprehensive retrospective of Leonilson's work in Europe and features more than 150 works produced between 1975 and 1993.

"Contains existing as well as newly commissioned essays on the artist's work written over the past twenty years"--publisher's description

"The definitive monograph on the irreverent transcultural painter of queerness and urban life. Straddling East and West Coast postwar art cultures from the late 1960s until his death, Martin Wong (1946-99) painted narratives of queer existence, marginal communities and gentrification in a visual vocabulary that merged Chinese iconography, urban poetry, graffiti and sign language. Wong took a thrillingly irreverent stance on sexual and political topics that were rarely given recognition within the art discourses of the time. The most substantial volume on the artist yet published, and the result of exhaustive research, [the volume] situates Wong's exhilarating painterly explorations within his era and his complex cultural position, reproducing an abundance of paintings from across his career." -- artbook.com