The medium of drawing allows an artist a level of immediacy, an intimacy not provided by other means of creation. Leiva uses this to its fullest, exploring the boundaries of charcoal on paper through his dreamlike depictions of alien flora and fauna. Geometric designs seem to dance across his landscape. "Las 3 Lunas" depicts a foreign world; enigmatic forms seem to coalesce into a city under the stars. His imaginative world unfolds into abstract forms, depicting a fantastical landscape full of wonder. Highly gestural, Levia uses the immediacy of drawing to bring a world of delight to life. Born in 1958 in Tucumán, Argentina, Leiva graduated from the Fine Arts School of the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. He continued his studies in Buenos Aires and moved to Miami in 1990. In 1996, he extended his practice to sculpture and ceramics. He lives part-time in Faenza, Italy, where he works with a variety of materials at Ceramica Gatti.