Leandro Erlich
Leandro Erlich (Buenos Aires, 1973) is the author of a work that uses the everyday to generate immersive experiences that alter the perception of reality, and is currently one of the Argentine visual artists with greatest international projection.
Through optical illusion, the artist configures a space that breaks our schemes and opens up endless avenues of interpretation.
Over the last two decades, Leandro Erlich has created a body of sculptures and large installations in which the architectural appearance of the everyday functions as a kind of perceptual trap: it leads the unsuspecting viewer into a visual paradox that defies the assumptions of the order and the rules of the material world. Erlich’s installations threaten our temporal certainties, provoke the viewer by altering his physical reference points and lead him to stupefaction and confusion, forcing him to relativize his position between the real and the artificial, logic and image.
Selected works
Lost Garden
2009
Wood, fluorescent tubes, artificial plants, metal structure, mirrors
360 × 280 × 180 cm (141 23⁄32 × 110 1⁄4 × 70 7⁄8 inches)
Staircase
2005
Installation
Dimensions variable
Window and ladder
2008
Installation
270 × 570 × 330 cm (106 5⁄16 × 224 13⁄32 × 129 29⁄32 inches)
Archaeological Storm
2013
MDF, metal structure, acrylic, 42" TV screen
121 × 90 × 12 cm (47 5⁄8 × 35 7⁄16 × 4 23⁄32 inches)
Window Captive Reflection
2013
MDF, metal structure, acrylic, 42" TV screen
121 × 100 × 25 cm (47 5⁄8 × 39 3⁄8 × 9 27⁄32 inches)
Neighbors
1996/2017
Metal frame, wooden door, formica, model
220 × 155 × 71 cm (86 5⁄8 × 61 1⁄32 × 27 15⁄16 inches)
The Classroom
2017
Wood, window, desk, chair, door, glass, light
La punta - La democracia del símbolo
2015
Inkjet printing on Hahnemühle Textured William Turner paper
152 × 103 cm (59 27⁄32 × 40 9⁄16 inches)
Obelisco sin punta - La Democracia del Símbolo
2015
Inkjet printing on Hahnemühle Textured William Turner paper
152 × 103 cm (59 27⁄32 × 40 9⁄16 inches)
Silver boat
2019
Steel
140.5 × 52.5 × 18.5 cm (55 5⁄16 × 20 21⁄32 × 7 9⁄32 inches)
La Flèche
2018
Extra clear glass, ceramic ink digital printing, wooden wengue vitrine, led lights
199.5 × 205 × 81 cm (78 17⁄32 × 80 23⁄32 × 31 7⁄8 inches)
Souris
2018
Extra clear glass, ceramic ink digital printing, wooden wengue vitrine, led lights
199.5 × 175 × 81 cm (78 17⁄32 × 68 29⁄32 × 31 7⁄8 inches)
Traffic Jam (Order of Importance)
2018
Sand casted cars, plywood base
33 × 320 × 140 cm (13 × 125 31⁄32 × 55 1⁄8 inches)
Pulled by the roots (model)
2015
Cast resin, cast bronze, acrylic, print
70 × 34 × 34 cm (27 9⁄16 × 13 3⁄8 × 13 3⁄8 inches)
Dalston House (model)
2013
Cast resin, mirror, wood, print,acrylic
100 × 60 × 53.5 cm (39 3⁄8 × 23 5⁄8 × 21 1⁄16 inches)
Monte-Meubles - L´ultime déménagement
2013
Model
Installation
Laundry
2019
Setouchi Triennale
Megijima Community Area
Liminal
2019
Museo Malba
Buenos Aires
Leandro Erlich: Seeing and Believing
2017
Mori Art Museum Tokyo
Tokyo
Sous le Ciel
2018
Bon Marché Rive Gauche
Paris
Certezas Efímeras
2017
Fundación Telefónica
Madrid
Puerto de Memorias
2016
MUNTREF-CAC
Buenos Aires
Pulled by the roots
2015
ZKM
Karlsruhe
La Democracia del símbolo
2015
Obelisco de Buenos Aires
MALBA
Buenos Aires
Port of Reflections
2014
MMCA
Seoul
Bâtiment
2014
Nuit Blanche
Paris
Swimming Pool
2014
21th Century Museum of Contemporary Art
Kanazawa
BUNNY SMASH design to touch the world
2013
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Tokyo
La Torre
2008
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Madrid
Exhibitions
The democracy of the symbol and other stories
MadridJan 16 - Apr 05, 2016
The exhibition proposes interpretations and reconstructions of situations that transcend, in an illusory manner, the physicality of the works while underlining their fictional and narrative experience.
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Lost Garden
MadridMay 25 - Jul 27, 2013
Lost Garden is an exhibition that turns the gallery space into a container of multiple landscapes, reflections, and presences.
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Miniature models of larger projects
BarcelonaNov 20, 2008 - Jan 17, 2009
This exhibition is articulated around a selection of Erlich’s maquettes, which reproduce the artist’s architectural installations to the minutest detail, coinciding with his exhibition in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.
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El consultorio del psicoanalista
BarcelonaMay 26 - Jul 27, 2005
Nogueras Blanchard presents the latest work of Leandro Erlich (Buenos Aires, 1973). His new installation Psychoanalyst’s office (2005) breaks into the architecture of the gallery transforming radically your perception of reality.
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