Renato Leotta

Renato Leotta (born 1982 in Turin) lives and works between Syracuse and Turin. In 2019 he was Italian Fellow in Visual Arts at the American Academy in Rome. Winner of the 10th edition of the Italian Council, international program to support Italian contemporary art, in 2022 he participated with the winning project in the 17th Istanbul Biennial.
Renato Leotta is drawn to the natural phenomena, the moon, the stars, the ocean, tides, and plants, all of which are the most prevalent components of Romantic poetry, regularly deployed to metaphorical, allegorical, and 'objective correlative' effects. Leotta's works are acts of observation, due to the use of the landscape as a subject. As an archaeologist of the Real, Leotta tries, through his process of observation, to identify and circumscribe a series of images, visualised through different media, that although being related to a specific time and space, contain a universal character. Moreover, by presenting the viewer with images that do not centre on narration, he works around and resists the limitations of cliché.