Leonardo Crudi (Roma 1988), Sergej Michajlovič Ėjzenštejn. Sciopero!

Enamels and pen on 300 gr paper applied on panelcm. 220x40Leonardo Crudi was born in Rome in 1988. Self-taught, he discovered the world of graffiti at the age of 13.
This initial 'street' training taught him how to construct two-dimensional images and associate colours, also leading him to develop an interest in a representation poised between abstraction and figuration. He devoted himself to painting from 2012 onwards, preferring the biros and enamel as his means of expression, which he uses to combine a vertical graphic stroke with geometric fields of uniform colour. In 2015, he devoted himself to studying Soviet avant-garde cinema, being influenced by Ėjzenštejn's 'Montage of Wonders'. Subsequently, he turns to the pictorial and photographic avant-gardes of Russian Suprematism and Constructivism, and reworks the lessons of Malevič, Rodčenko, Lisickij and Klucis. In 2017, he created the urban art project 'Revolution', dedicated to the centenary of the October Revolution. For the project, he creates a series of posters, painted and hand-drawn, inspired by Russian avant-garde poster art. At the end of the same year, he began the 'Cinema' project, focusing on the Italian film avant-garde, which saw him create posters for films, for which promotional posters were never produced, as they remained outside the large distribution circuit.

In the last two years, Crudi has exhibited in Roman galleries, foundations and museums, such as: 'Macro Testaccio' (2018), 'Sala 1. International Centre of Contemporary Art' (2018), 'Contemporary cluster' (2018 and 2022), 'Galleria Fidia' (2018), 'Fondazione Marco Besso' (2019) and 'Macro Asilo' (2019).