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Nicolás Leiva: Realms of Rebirth

Current exhibition
March 20 - May 30, 2025 New York City
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Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan

Ruiz-Healy Art presents Nicolás Leiva: Realms of Rebirth, a solo exhibition by Argentine-born, Miami-based artist Nicolás Leiva. The exhibition will be on view in New York City from March 20 to May 9, 2025, with an opening reception on March 20 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM, attended by the artist. This marks Leiva’s third solo show with Ruiz-Healy Art and his first in a New York gallery.

 

Leiva’s work explores themes of life, transformation, and spirituality through vibrant ceramics that blend natural and cultural influences. Inspired by his father’s work as the founder and director of a nature reserve in Argentina, Nicolás Leiva creates fantastical ecosystems where flora and fauna merge into imaginative ceramic figures. Leiva’s sublime creations also owe their decadence to the beauty and craftsmanship of Italian art. Having spent several years working at the Bottega Gatti in Faenza, Italy, the artist absorbed Faetina ceramics techniques, which incorporate lusters of gold, platinum, ruby, and mother of pearl. Realms of Rebirth suggests a symbolic exploration of integration, transfiguration, and unseen forces that shape our world and alternate realms of existence. Just as pollinators sustain life, Leiva metaphorically draws from his diverse influences to create works between the corporeal and the mystical.

 

The exhibition includes new works such as Sopera, a richly decorated soup tureen symbolizing the communal ritual of people sitting, eating, and living in the lust of creation. Realms of Rebirth also features the work Sea Flora, sourced from the artist’s installation project, El Diluvio Prometido (The Promised Flood) which encouraged the artist to go beyond the four walls of his studio, taking him to the ocean, where ceramic pieces were placed on the shoreline, awaiting the slow and steady power of waves engulfing them. Sea Flora hybridizes bio-organic forms worthy of its own mythology, coming alive with a curved tail and tentacle-like symbols. “Leiva imagines at an accelerated topographical speed, folding onto one another the different metonymic processes that evoke transformation, death, and rebirth,” explains Cuban American poet and art critic Ricardo Pau-Llosa in his book, Parallel Currents. 

 

For Leiva, his art does not exist in just one world. Instead, it is a labyrinth of opulent structures, patterns, and ornaments. This is especially true for his Barcas series in which Leiva incorporates figures reminiscent of sea creatures and presents them, his protagonists, as spheres, spikes, and surrealist characters. In Arbol de los Sueños (Tree of Dreams), the artist utilizes aesthetics and utilitarianism to create a scene that echoes a tree of life, symbolizing the cyclical nature of existence. “My world is adjacent to the world of psychoanalysis; these are my worlds of what is to come; these are my visions of the future,” says the artist.

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Works
  • Nicolás Leiva Sopera, 2015 Majolica ceramic with gold and platinum lustrous, Ceramica Gatti, Italy 17 x 18 x 17 in 45.7 x 43.2 x 43.2 cm
    Nicolás Leiva
    Sopera, 2015
    Majolica ceramic with gold and platinum lustrous, Ceramica Gatti, Italy
    17 x 18 x 17 in
    45.7 x 43.2 x 43.2 cm
  • Nicolás Leiva Vessel for Seraphim Blooms, 2024 Majolica ceramic with gold 13 x 13 x 10 in 33 x 33 x 25.4 cm
    Nicolás Leiva
    Vessel for Seraphim Blooms, 2024
    Majolica ceramic with gold
    13 x 13 x 10 in
    33 x 33 x 25.4 cm
  • Nicolás Leiva Sea Flora, 2024 Majolica ceramic with gold 35 x 15 x 15 in 88.9 x 38.1 x 38.1 cm
    Nicolás Leiva
    Sea Flora, 2024
    Majolica ceramic with gold
    35 x 15 x 15 in
    88.9 x 38.1 x 38.1 cm
  • Nicolás Leiva Barca V, 2019-2020 Majolica ceramic with variable gold and platinum 14 x 13 x 13.5 in 35.6 x 33 x 34.3 cm
    Nicolás Leiva
    Barca V, 2019-2020
    Majolica ceramic with variable gold and platinum
    14 x 13 x 13.5 in
    35.6 x 33 x 34.3 cm
  • Nicolás Leiva Flowers VI, 2024 Majolica ceramic with gold 5.5 x 5.5 3.5 in 14 x 14 cm
    Nicolás Leiva
    Flowers VI, 2024
    Majolica ceramic with gold
    5.5 x 5.5 3.5 in
    14 x 14 cm
  • Nicolás Leiva Barca IV, 2024 Under glazed ceramic 18.5 x 9 in 47 x 22.9 cm
    Nicolás Leiva
    Barca IV, 2024
    Under glazed ceramic
    18.5 x 9 in
    47 x 22.9 cm
  • Nicolás Leiva Paradise Garden Vase, 2024 Majolica ceramic with gold 12.5 x 11 x 11 in 30.5 x 27.9 x 27.9 cm
    Nicolás Leiva
    Paradise Garden Vase, 2024
    Majolica ceramic with gold
    12.5 x 11 x 11 in
    30.5 x 27.9 x 27.9 cm
  • Nicolás Leiva Arbol de los Sueños (Tree of Dreams), 2017 Majolica ceramic with gold and lustrous Ceramica Gatti, Italy 30 in diameter 76.2 cm diameter
    Nicolás Leiva
    Arbol de los Sueños (Tree of Dreams), 2017
    Majolica ceramic with gold and lustrous
    Ceramica Gatti, Italy
    30 in diameter
    76.2 cm diameter
  • Nicolás Leiva El Jarron, 2023 Majolica ceramic with platinum gold 18.5 x 9 in 47 x 22.9 cm
    Nicolás Leiva
    El Jarron, 2023
    Majolica ceramic with platinum gold
    18.5 x 9 in
    47 x 22.9 cm
  • Nicolás Leiva Viaje al Paraiso V, 2016 Chromo base paint and engraving on aluminum 19.5 inches diameter 49.5 cm diameter
    Nicolás Leiva
    Viaje al Paraiso V, 2016
    Chromo base paint and engraving on aluminum
    19.5 inches diameter
    49.5 cm diameter
  • Nicolás Leiva Viaje al Paraiso VI, 2016 Chromo base paint and engraving on aluminum 19.5 inches diameter 49.5 cm diameter
    Nicolás Leiva
    Viaje al Paraiso VI, 2016
    Chromo base paint and engraving on aluminum
    19.5 inches diameter
    49.5 cm diameter
  • Nicolás Leiva Viaje al Paraiso VII, 2016 Chromo base paint and engraving on aluminum 19.5 inches diameter 49.5 cm diameter
    Nicolás Leiva
    Viaje al Paraiso VII, 2016
    Chromo base paint and engraving on aluminum
    19.5 inches diameter
    49.5 cm diameter
Installation Views
  • Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
    Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
  • Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
    Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
  • Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
    Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
  • Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
    Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
  • Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
    Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
  • Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
    Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
  • Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
    Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
  • Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
    Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
  • Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
    Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
  • Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
    Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
  • Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
    Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
  • Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
    Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
  • Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
    Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
  • Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
    Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
  • Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
    Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
  • Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
    Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
  • Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
    Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
  • Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
    Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
  • Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
    Installation Images by Ysabella Punzalan
Press
  • Nicolás Leiva, Sopera, 2015, Signed and dated on the underside, Majolica ceramic with gold and platinum lustrous, Ceramica Gatti, Italy, 17 x 18 x 17 in, 45.7 x 43.2 x 43.2 cm

    Nicolás Leiva: "Realms of Rebirth" opens in New York, blending natural and mythical ceramic forms

    ArtDaily, March 20, 2025

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