Leo Caillard (Paris, France, 1985) belongs to a generation of artists associated with the important changes that have been taking place since the 2000s, with the onset of the digital era and the new concerns of societies. An advocate of new technologies and science, his initial interests focused on the exploration of time and quantum physics, but Caillard soon abandoned the world of numbers to show his research through his artworks.

Leo Caillard

Art has to do with history. It is the sensitive expression of an era.

Time is relative. Therefore, the art of a bygone era is also an expression of our present.

Through his works, the artist Léo Caillard plays with time to make the past, the present and the future meet in the same space created by sculpture.

Leo Caillard, “VR Buste,2020”. Escultura de mármol blanco.

We interviewed the artist to know more about his work and his participation in Art Madrid:

What inspires you when you create?

I draw my inspiration for my work mainly from antiquity and history. In my artworks I reinterpret the ancient and the past in order to bring them to life today, I open a dialogue between the past and the present.

What are you working on recently?

I am currently working on digital art and the NFT, the Non-Fungible Token: the creation of unique digital art. I try to open a bridge between the reality of marble and the virtuality of digital creation.

Laoocon, 2020. Escultura en mármol de carrara. 60x60x40cm

Tell us about your creative process

First of all, I work on 3D scanning. I take inspiration from antiques that I scan, in collaboration with museums or institutions and, from this scan, I make a pre-sculpted marble to get a shape closer to what I want to do. All the details, the final touches, are finished by hand: the glasses, the beard, things a bit more detailed, so that the sculpture remains unique in its approach.

You are participating in the fair for the first time, what do you expect from Art Madrid?

I'm delighted to be at Art Madrid this year, it's an opportunity and a good fortune. I think as an artist you don't expect much; you expect to enter into a dialogue with the public and see the reactions. In any case, it's a joy to show my artworks from this year at this fair.

Do you usually make a preliminary study of the life of the classical character you reinterpret in your work?

I love history and I try to use sculpture to be in agreement with what I want to say: Apollo taking a selfie, Narcissus, Hercules... I try to be in connection with the myth, and that the history of the ancient statue is in dialogue with the version I want to make.

Are you thinking of "dressing" the sculptures of another great museum or are you focusing your next work on another discourse?

I think the habillage project is something I started in 2010 and it's starting to get a bit outdated. I had a lot of fun working on this notion of clothing as an attribute, only now I want to go towards the digital spirit and wonder more about virtuality in relation to reality, through deformations, through things that will create an opening between the abstract and the figurative.

Animación3D. “Woman face casque Marshall et casquette”

The artist Leo Caillard participates for the first time in Art Madrid with the Parisian gallery Galerie LJ, together with the artists Julien Primard, Quentin Garel y Heide Ukkonen.

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