Leonard Staigle (*1991, Tübingen)

In his surrealistic works, Leonard Staigle creates multilayered visual environments that grow out of a fusion of intuition and impulsiveness.
In these compositions, strictness and playfulness enter into a dynamic dialogue: geometric forms encounter organic, vegetative elements and merge into independent compositions.
His work is characterised by intense, luminous colours – bright, high-contrast and full of energy. At the same time, he deliberately creates reduced, monochrome works that present a striking contrast to these colourful compositions, emphasising form and structure even stronger.
Driven by an inner urge for knowledge and a constant pursuit of beauty, he uses painting as a medium that allows the viewer to take part in this quest. For him, painting offers an opportunity to generate new spatial concepts. “Beauty always lies behind a mountain” – this thought runs like a leitmotif through his work. Each painting results from a journey that begins with an uncertain destination.
The artist invites the viewer to rethink the settings he has created. Through their own personal associations and mental pathways, viewers can create additional visual spaces that go beyond the visible.