Leonardo Drew

For the first time in Italy, a private gallery presents a solo show by Leonardo Drew, a prominent artist on the current international scene. His only institutional exhibit in Italy was held back in 2006, at the Palazzo delle Papesse in Siena.
The Napolinobilissima gallery is opening its autumn program with an important event. From September 23 to November 19, it will host 16 works by the famous American sculptor, as well as a site-specific installation.
Leonardo Drew is one of the most significant figures of the black American contemporary art scene. He grew up in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in a modest neighborhood. He developed an interest in drawing at an early age. After earning his degree in the fine arts in New York in the mid-Eighties, he devoted himself completely to sculpture and experimental research on materials. His art finds an inexhaustible source of inspiration in recuperated objects and elements, which he then works on and assembles into abstract compositions of great visual impact.