Leandro Pérez Figueredo - Ansias de libertad
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Leandro Pérez Figueredo hand-signed the original acrylic painting titled Ansias de libertad, a 56 by 43 cm work from 2025, produced in Spain in the Art Nouveau style, in excellent condition.
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Acrylic on canvas — Leandro Figueredo
In this work, Leandro Figueredo articulates a precise emotional tension between restraint and overflow, using a visual language where ornamentation and figurative coexist in a delicate balance. The portrait — with polished technical execution and contemporary sensitivity — emerges from an organic mesh of forms that evoke both foliage and symbolic structures, suggesting an environment that is not merely decorative, but psychological.
The face, with a direct and penetrating gaze, acts as a compositional and emotional anchor. The choice of a white flower in the foreground is not incidental: it functions as a color counterpoint against the intensity of the dominant red, and as a symbol of purity, transformation, or even of latent freedom that has not yet been realized. This duality between the ethereal and the contained is reinforced in the palette, where vibrant reds — charged with vital energy, desire, and urgency — intertwine with blue-green tones that provide a visual breath, but also a sense of entanglement or confinement.
Figueredo demonstrates notable control of the acrylic medium, achieving smooth transitions in the skin that contrast with the graphic stylization of the surroundings. This coexistence of hyperrealism and ornamentation generates an ambiguous reading: is the figure emerging toward freedom or being absorbed by its own inner world?
"Longings for freedom" is not simply a portrait; it is an emotional statement condensed into an image. The work invites the viewer to confront that universal impulse to break — to transcend invisible limits — encapsulated in a gaze that does not evade, but confronts.
A piece of strong aesthetic and narrative presence, ideal for collectors seeking works with symbolic charge, technical mastery, and a distinctive visual identity within contemporary figurative art.
The work is carefully shipped protected in a transit tube to ensure its optimal conservation.
LEANDRO PÉREZ FIGUEREDO
Artist Statement
My work focuses on fantastic figuration, using portraiture as a vehicle to explore the human psyche and its archetypal narratives. My primary interest lies in the tension between intimate experience and universal symbolism: the female figure becomes the crucible where concepts such as conflict, sacrifice, desire, and memory manifest.
My process is a visual thesis that fuses realistic observation of faces with graphic and organic stylization in the surroundings, inspired by Art Nouveau and the sinuous narrative of Pop Surrealism. I seek to give shape to what is unsaid but felt through the integration of symbolic and aesthetically striking organic elements, which act as direct metaphors of internal states and life processes.
My work dialogues with Surrealism and Magical Realism, seeking to demonstrate that the body is a map and the mind an ecosystem. Each painting is a consequence of consciousness, an effort to capture the constant duality (Youth/Time, Beauty/Death) that defines the human condition. Ultimately, my work is the visual chronicle of the search for where the soul rests, inviting reflection on our own essential complexity.
Education
2011–2015:
• Bachelor’s degree in Art Instructors – University of Las Tunas, Cuba.
2014:
• Diploma in Curatorship – Provincial Center for Culture - Las Tunas, Cuba.
2006–2010:
• Art Instructor Title – Rita Longa Professional School of Art, Las Tunas, Cuba.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025:
• Collective Exhibition “Nexus” – Asociación Hermanos Saíz (AHS), Las Tunas, Cuba.
• Collective Exhibition edition 10 of the Prisma Contest, Process - Havana, Cuba.
• UNEAC 2025 Salon - UNEAC Gallery, Las Tunas, Cuba.
• International Competition on Alphonse Mucha – Online.
2024:
• Provincial Exhibition on Martí – Asociación Hermanos Saíz (AHS), Las Tunas, Cuba.
2021:
• Provincial Exhibition – Provincial Art Instructors Salon, UNEAC, Las Tunas, Cuba.
2018:
• National Exhibition – “Mayo Abstracto”, Provincial Center for Plastic Arts, Las Tunas, Cuba.
• Provincial Exhibition – “Plástica en Abril”, Provincial Center for Plastic Arts, Las Tunas, Cuba.
• Collecting Exhibition – Fayad Jamís Gallery, Las Tunas, Cuba.
• Provincial Exhibition on Martí – Ibero-American House of the Tenth, Las Tunas, Cuba.
2017:
• 3rd Collective Exhibition – “Cuba, how beautiful Cuba is”, Perugia, Italy.
2016:
• 2nd Collective Exhibition – “Cuba, how beautiful Cuba is”, Perugia, Italy.
• Provincial Landscape Event – "Green I love you green", Puerto Padre, Cuba.
• National Exhibition – “Mayo Abstracto”, Provincial Center for Plastic Arts, Las Tunas, Cuba.
• Collective Exhibition – Fayad Jamís Gallery, Las Tunas, Cuba.
2015:
• 1st Collective Exhibition – “Cuba, how beautiful Cuba is”, Perugia, Italy.
• National Exhibition – “Mayo Abstracto”, Provincial Center for Plastic Arts, Las Tunas, Cuba.
2014:
• International Exhibition – “Letters by correspondence”, Spain.
• Collecting Printmaking Exhibition – Asociación Hermanos Saíz (AHS), Las Tunas, Cuba.
2013:
• National Salon – “Escaramujo”, Cuba.
2009:
• Plastic Arts Salon – “Archived Pupila”, Las Tunas, Cuba.
• Plastic Arts Salon – "Guernica", Asociación Hermanos Saíz (AHS), Las Tunas, Cuba.
Awards and Recognitions
2025:
• Finalist in the 10th Prisma Contest, Process - Havana, Cuba.
• Second Prize – Salon “Guernica”, AHS, Las Tunas, Cuba.
• Collateral Prize – Provincial Center for Plastic Arts, awarded at Salon “Guernica”, Las Tunas, Cuba.
• Collateral Prize – Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), awarded at Salon “Guernica”, Las Tunas, Cuba.
• First Prize – Digital Drawing Challenge, HUION Tablets.
2024:
• Mention of Honor – Provincial Martiano Salon, Las Tunas, Cuba.
2022:
• Third Prize – Martiano Provincial Salon, Las Tunas, Cuba.
2016:
• Second Prize – Provincial Salon of Art Instructors, Las Tunas, Cuba.
2015:
• First Prize – Provincial Salon of Art Instructors, Las Tunas, Cuba.
2014:
• Mention – Provincial Salon of Art Instructors, Las Tunas, Cuba.
Public and Community Art Projects
2014:
• Mural creation – Asociación Hermanos Saíz (AHS), Las Tunas, Cuba.
• Mural and artistic ambience – School “Camilo Cienfuegos”, Las Tunas, Cuba.
2012:
• Mural creation – IPR “Protest of Baraguá”, Las Tunas, Cuba.
2010:
• Clay mural – Rita Longa Art Instructors School, Las Tunas
Related Professional Experience
2015:
• Jury – PAEME competition (municipal and base level), Las Tunas, Cuba.
2014:
• Curator – “Cosechando un mañana” competition, Las Tunas, Cuba.
Press and Media
2016:
• Interview for regional radio and television, on the award ceremony, Provincial Center for Plastic Arts, Las Tunas, Cuba.
2014:
• Interview, Project “Del lobo un pelo”, Asociación Hermanos Saíz (AHS), Las Tunas, Cuba.
Collections
Works in private collections in Cuba, the United States, Spain, Colombia, and Italy.
Languages
• Spanish (Native)
• English (Intermediate, B2)
• French (Basic, A2)
Seller's Story
Cuban Art Circle is an international group of approximately 20 artists, founded and represented by painter Cristian Mesa Velázquez.
United by a deep passion for painting and a serious commitment to artistic excellence, the members of the collective work from different parts of the world. While each artist maintains their own personal voice, all share a rigorous technical approach and absolute dedication to the pictorial medium.
Oil on canvas is the predominant technique, although other methods are explored to enrich the group’s visual language. The works are characterized by high standards of execution, exceptional care in the treatment of light, color, and texture, and a remarkable ability to convey emotion and depth through figure, symbol, and atmosphere.
The collective represents artists committed to high-level contemporary painting, where technical mastery is combined with a personal and contemporary vision. Their works have been presented at major international art fairs in Europe and are part of private collections across several continents.
Cuban Art Circle is a serious and professional platform dedicated to promoting superior quality painting, created to connect demanding artists with collectors who value rigor, passion, and pictorial excellence.
Translated by Google TranslateAcrylic on canvas — Leandro Figueredo
In this work, Leandro Figueredo articulates a precise emotional tension between restraint and overflow, using a visual language where ornamentation and figurative coexist in a delicate balance. The portrait — with polished technical execution and contemporary sensitivity — emerges from an organic mesh of forms that evoke both foliage and symbolic structures, suggesting an environment that is not merely decorative, but psychological.
The face, with a direct and penetrating gaze, acts as a compositional and emotional anchor. The choice of a white flower in the foreground is not incidental: it functions as a color counterpoint against the intensity of the dominant red, and as a symbol of purity, transformation, or even of latent freedom that has not yet been realized. This duality between the ethereal and the contained is reinforced in the palette, where vibrant reds — charged with vital energy, desire, and urgency — intertwine with blue-green tones that provide a visual breath, but also a sense of entanglement or confinement.
Figueredo demonstrates notable control of the acrylic medium, achieving smooth transitions in the skin that contrast with the graphic stylization of the surroundings. This coexistence of hyperrealism and ornamentation generates an ambiguous reading: is the figure emerging toward freedom or being absorbed by its own inner world?
"Longings for freedom" is not simply a portrait; it is an emotional statement condensed into an image. The work invites the viewer to confront that universal impulse to break — to transcend invisible limits — encapsulated in a gaze that does not evade, but confronts.
A piece of strong aesthetic and narrative presence, ideal for collectors seeking works with symbolic charge, technical mastery, and a distinctive visual identity within contemporary figurative art.
The work is carefully shipped protected in a transit tube to ensure its optimal conservation.
LEANDRO PÉREZ FIGUEREDO
Artist Statement
My work focuses on fantastic figuration, using portraiture as a vehicle to explore the human psyche and its archetypal narratives. My primary interest lies in the tension between intimate experience and universal symbolism: the female figure becomes the crucible where concepts such as conflict, sacrifice, desire, and memory manifest.
My process is a visual thesis that fuses realistic observation of faces with graphic and organic stylization in the surroundings, inspired by Art Nouveau and the sinuous narrative of Pop Surrealism. I seek to give shape to what is unsaid but felt through the integration of symbolic and aesthetically striking organic elements, which act as direct metaphors of internal states and life processes.
My work dialogues with Surrealism and Magical Realism, seeking to demonstrate that the body is a map and the mind an ecosystem. Each painting is a consequence of consciousness, an effort to capture the constant duality (Youth/Time, Beauty/Death) that defines the human condition. Ultimately, my work is the visual chronicle of the search for where the soul rests, inviting reflection on our own essential complexity.
Education
2011–2015:
• Bachelor’s degree in Art Instructors – University of Las Tunas, Cuba.
2014:
• Diploma in Curatorship – Provincial Center for Culture - Las Tunas, Cuba.
2006–2010:
• Art Instructor Title – Rita Longa Professional School of Art, Las Tunas, Cuba.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025:
• Collective Exhibition “Nexus” – Asociación Hermanos Saíz (AHS), Las Tunas, Cuba.
• Collective Exhibition edition 10 of the Prisma Contest, Process - Havana, Cuba.
• UNEAC 2025 Salon - UNEAC Gallery, Las Tunas, Cuba.
• International Competition on Alphonse Mucha – Online.
2024:
• Provincial Exhibition on Martí – Asociación Hermanos Saíz (AHS), Las Tunas, Cuba.
2021:
• Provincial Exhibition – Provincial Art Instructors Salon, UNEAC, Las Tunas, Cuba.
2018:
• National Exhibition – “Mayo Abstracto”, Provincial Center for Plastic Arts, Las Tunas, Cuba.
• Provincial Exhibition – “Plástica en Abril”, Provincial Center for Plastic Arts, Las Tunas, Cuba.
• Collecting Exhibition – Fayad Jamís Gallery, Las Tunas, Cuba.
• Provincial Exhibition on Martí – Ibero-American House of the Tenth, Las Tunas, Cuba.
2017:
• 3rd Collective Exhibition – “Cuba, how beautiful Cuba is”, Perugia, Italy.
2016:
• 2nd Collective Exhibition – “Cuba, how beautiful Cuba is”, Perugia, Italy.
• Provincial Landscape Event – "Green I love you green", Puerto Padre, Cuba.
• National Exhibition – “Mayo Abstracto”, Provincial Center for Plastic Arts, Las Tunas, Cuba.
• Collective Exhibition – Fayad Jamís Gallery, Las Tunas, Cuba.
2015:
• 1st Collective Exhibition – “Cuba, how beautiful Cuba is”, Perugia, Italy.
• National Exhibition – “Mayo Abstracto”, Provincial Center for Plastic Arts, Las Tunas, Cuba.
2014:
• International Exhibition – “Letters by correspondence”, Spain.
• Collecting Printmaking Exhibition – Asociación Hermanos Saíz (AHS), Las Tunas, Cuba.
2013:
• National Salon – “Escaramujo”, Cuba.
2009:
• Plastic Arts Salon – “Archived Pupila”, Las Tunas, Cuba.
• Plastic Arts Salon – "Guernica", Asociación Hermanos Saíz (AHS), Las Tunas, Cuba.
Awards and Recognitions
2025:
• Finalist in the 10th Prisma Contest, Process - Havana, Cuba.
• Second Prize – Salon “Guernica”, AHS, Las Tunas, Cuba.
• Collateral Prize – Provincial Center for Plastic Arts, awarded at Salon “Guernica”, Las Tunas, Cuba.
• Collateral Prize – Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), awarded at Salon “Guernica”, Las Tunas, Cuba.
• First Prize – Digital Drawing Challenge, HUION Tablets.
2024:
• Mention of Honor – Provincial Martiano Salon, Las Tunas, Cuba.
2022:
• Third Prize – Martiano Provincial Salon, Las Tunas, Cuba.
2016:
• Second Prize – Provincial Salon of Art Instructors, Las Tunas, Cuba.
2015:
• First Prize – Provincial Salon of Art Instructors, Las Tunas, Cuba.
2014:
• Mention – Provincial Salon of Art Instructors, Las Tunas, Cuba.
Public and Community Art Projects
2014:
• Mural creation – Asociación Hermanos Saíz (AHS), Las Tunas, Cuba.
• Mural and artistic ambience – School “Camilo Cienfuegos”, Las Tunas, Cuba.
2012:
• Mural creation – IPR “Protest of Baraguá”, Las Tunas, Cuba.
2010:
• Clay mural – Rita Longa Art Instructors School, Las Tunas
Related Professional Experience
2015:
• Jury – PAEME competition (municipal and base level), Las Tunas, Cuba.
2014:
• Curator – “Cosechando un mañana” competition, Las Tunas, Cuba.
Press and Media
2016:
• Interview for regional radio and television, on the award ceremony, Provincial Center for Plastic Arts, Las Tunas, Cuba.
2014:
• Interview, Project “Del lobo un pelo”, Asociación Hermanos Saíz (AHS), Las Tunas, Cuba.
Collections
Works in private collections in Cuba, the United States, Spain, Colombia, and Italy.
Languages
• Spanish (Native)
• English (Intermediate, B2)
• French (Basic, A2)
Seller's Story
Cuban Art Circle is an international group of approximately 20 artists, founded and represented by painter Cristian Mesa Velázquez.
United by a deep passion for painting and a serious commitment to artistic excellence, the members of the collective work from different parts of the world. While each artist maintains their own personal voice, all share a rigorous technical approach and absolute dedication to the pictorial medium.
Oil on canvas is the predominant technique, although other methods are explored to enrich the group’s visual language. The works are characterized by high standards of execution, exceptional care in the treatment of light, color, and texture, and a remarkable ability to convey emotion and depth through figure, symbol, and atmosphere.
The collective represents artists committed to high-level contemporary painting, where technical mastery is combined with a personal and contemporary vision. Their works have been presented at major international art fairs in Europe and are part of private collections across several continents.
Cuban Art Circle is a serious and professional platform dedicated to promoting superior quality painting, created to connect demanding artists with collectors who value rigor, passion, and pictorial excellence.
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Artist
Leandro Pérez Figueredo
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Edition
Original
Title of artwork
Ansias de libertad
Technique
Acrylic painting
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Spain
Year
2025
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
56 cm
Width
43 cm
Style
Art Nouveau
Period
2020+
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