Composition 1937

This ‘Composition’ by Leo Leuppi, is like a little puzzle made of colours and shapes. I love the way the red floats on top of the sandy brown. It feels like he’s pushing and pulling space, like he’s not quite sure what anything is until it's all put together, you know? The white lines create a kind of scaffolding. They're drawn on top, maybe at the end, like he's trying to find the architecture within the space. There’s a real sense of process here. Everything feels immediate and unrehearsed. The texture of the paper is left bare in places, and the paint isn’t overworked. It reminds me of Paul Klee, who also loved to play with simple shapes and colours to create these kind of dreamlike spaces. Both artists are interested in how art can be a playground for the mind, a place where things don’t have to make perfect sense. Instead, they can just be.