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oil on canvas 92x73.
The painter, sculptor and lithographer Leo Wesel was born in Roosendaal, a small town in the south of the Netherlands, in 1955. From an early age, he had the ambition to build his life around Art. He studied at the Academy of Fashion and Design in The Hague, then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Roosendaal. He has had a career as an artist since the early 80s. He discovered Italy and decided to settle in Ventimiglia in 1990 and then in Nice in France in 2011 with the Franco-New York sculptor Kim Boulukos. He will follow the training "Lavoro con Ardesia" (Working the slate) in 2002 and 2003 in the small town of Molini di Triora in Italian Liguria (near Imperia). Leo Wesel has long maintained close working relationships with Wim Schütz and Wim Bouthoorn, two Dutch expressionist artists, but also with the French painter Serge Hélénon. He was for a long time close to the Franco-Italian painter Bernard Damiano, who died in 2000. The Italian painter Sergio Biancheri, the Hungarian constructivist artist Tamas Konok and the American ceramics professor Daphné Corregan, based in Monaco, are also among his relatives. Personal exhibitions of the work of Leo Wesel, paintings and sculptures, are regularly organized and the artist has participated in numerous group exhibitions. He has several times had access to public commissions for large format sculptures (Menton, Ventimiglia, San Lorenzo al Mare, etc.).
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