"LEILY /MUTATION Nº4" // MAJOR SERIES
DESCRIPTION:
- "LEILY TAZ EVANS / MUTATION" collection
- High quality canvas available in 4 sizes*: 48x48cm / 65x65cm / 100x100cm / 140x140cm
- Very limited edition numbered and signed by the artist (1/45)
- Natural high grammage canvas with texture made with recycled cotton
- Sealed and protected with UV-VarnishPersonal dedication on request
- Plastic free shipping
- Measure accurately before framing
ABOUT THE COLLECTION:
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Leily is a woman's name.
Leily is nostalgia and future, it is friendship.
Sometimes we make trips to disconnect from our circumstances, our routines and environments, but even in the most unexpected and distant corners we can find pieces of ourselves, in the most unexpected people. KOKO CHE JOTA went to live in China when she was only 16 years old, to discover that truth.
Jumping into the void, sometimes, is the only way out of it.
During the first four months of her stay in the country, which ended up lasting one and a half years, she was housed in a boarding school that, at that time, only welcomed Asian children and, as was normal, they did not know a common language with which they could communicate with her. The only person trying in that place was Leily, who struggled with the minimum of English to make herself understood.
Leily had become a musician, a powerful woman in charge of her live. Like KOKO, she had learned from herself, from her surroundings, from her own curiosity, from her tireless practice. Different paths, but the same direction. The expression, the emotion, an anchor in the life of KOKO that should have a unique space also in her art, and from her art.
The new collection, how could it be otherwise, called LEILY, is a transversal collection. It has not existed, but it has been created while other projects were born and died, over the years. Each previous collection has a work dedicated to Leily, but it is now that KOKO has discovered that she had been working on this project for years. One that encompasses all the previous projects, in which she had left a little piece, breadcrumbs to be able to return through the carousel of his life, over and over again.
The works are the result of passion and shared struggles. Tribute to the woman who, unknowingly, motivated her and will motivate Koko throughout her career. People by and for whom it is worth creating and dressing canvases. They are works full of layers and silhouettes, of layers and evolutions, that take you from one side of the chest to the other. Some psychedelic distortions, lyrical metamorphoses of the forms, which melt into hugs.
And in the end, the only constant is the shared blood. Both life and mortality are stored in two drops that appear throughout this series of paintings as symbols of the purest red.
Shared experiences and struggles, this new collection is a tribute to brotherhood, sisterhood and empathy. A hymn to friendship, a motivation to share and be. Perhaps the desire that there are more people willing to create universes around them, without asking for anything in return, someone like LEILY, capable of catching a smile and making it home.
The process of making canvases is undoubtedly unique.
High quality canvases are processed with heat acrylic inks, the increase in temperature causes the pore of the canvas to open. In this way the ink is introduced to the deepest part of the fiber, the result is a live pigment with an exceptional finish.
The canvases are made of recycled cotton with a high grammage and organic textures.
They are subsequently sealed with a protective spray to maintain the quality of the canvas, with a special shine.
*It is advisable to measure the canvas accurately before framing, since its size may vary slightly. The drag of the machine and the heat on the cotton cause these slight variations.