Nicolás Leiva American, b. 1958
Sea Flora, 2024
Majolica ceramic with gold
35 x 15 x 15 in
88.9 x 38.1 x 38.1 cm
88.9 x 38.1 x 38.1 cm
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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....
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. Hybridizing bio-organic forms, Sea Flora is worthy of its 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.
