Norman LETO (b. 1980), Iceland I, 2013-2014

oil, canvas; 160 x 120 cm; described on the reverse: ICELAND 1 / NORMAN
2014.
EXHIBITED AND REPRODUCED:
- People who still want something from me, PGS Sopot, 2016.

One of the larger presentations of Norman Leto's artistic output entitled.
"People Who Still Want Something from Me" was on view at the State
Art Gallery in Sopot in 2016. Another show bearing the
titled "Go and Look" took place at the Museum in Zabrze. In 2018, there was
exhibition "Kintop. From Film" organized at the Jan Tarasin Art Gallery in Kalisz.
Tarasin Art Gallery in Kalisz. One of the latest exhibitions of Norman Leto under the title.
"The Naive Look" was held at the Warsaw gallery of the Libra auction house.
In Arkadiusz Półtorak's text accompanying the first of the mentioned presentations
presentation, one can read "If painting plays a special role in this laboratory
some special role, it can be compared to the cleansing work,
that the human mind performs during sleep: entangling memories and the most
persistent thoughts in a uniform magma, which paradoxically serves to
maintaining order. As a result of a similar process - initiated
by Norman in breaks from his exhausting work on films - from the jumbled
figures in his paintings, a panorama of the contemporary world emerges.
In this light, it is easy to fit Leto's paintings into a realist formula, however
>verism< does not exhaust it (...)".