Perché più bruci is devoted to the Italian artist Leoncillo Leonardi (1915–68). The sculptor’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and the opening chapter of a trilogy dedicated to his work, it is curated by Lorenzo Fiorucci, Alberto Salvadori and Azalea Seratoni, and marks the beginning of Thaddaeus Ropac’s representation of the Fondazione Leoncillo.
Bringing together sculptures and works on paper spanning four decades, the exhibition places the body at its centre - the thread that runs, unbroken, through Leoncillo’s entire artistic and intellectual journey: from the early olive tree drawings to the chromatic volumes of his beginnings, to the faceted, Post-Cubist sculptures of the 1950s, and on to the Informale outcomes of his final decade.