Leonardo Pereznieto's Sculpture Featured at New York Fashion Week

The fashion world has embraced Leonardo Pereznieto´s art.

New York, NY (PRWEB) September 20, 2005 -- Mexican sculptor Leonardo Pereznieto presented an unique art piece to designer Esteban Cortazar during New York Fashion Week, at a celebrity party at the glamorous Marquee, in Chelsea.

At 11:00 p.m., under the cover of darkness, the transparent acrylic sculpture was unveiled. Illuminated from below, the piece glimmered with its own light. The 12" sculpture portrays a beautiful model graciously walking down a pasarella, with her elegant evening gown hugging her curves and fluttering in the air. Cortazar immediately recognized one of his own dress designs portrayed in the sculpure, and felt moved by this homage to his talent.

The fashion world has embraced Leonardo Pereznieto´s art. Celebrities and top models such as Gisele Bundchen, Naomi Campbell and guests such as Beyonce, Andy Rodick and Paris Hilton attended fashion week in New York City, which featured the Spring 2006 Collection of Esteban Cortazar.

Leonardo Pereznieto has exhibited in prominent galleries all over the world, including New York, Paris, Florence, London, Montecarlo, Los Angeles, and Mexico City. He has also given presentations on his art at the Celebrity Centre Florence and the University of Michigan, among others. He was awarded the Mozart Prize for the Arts in Nice, France and recently received a prize at the International Art Festival in New York City.

Pereznieto´s art is post-romantic in style. His exquisite sculptures and paintings play upon our disavowed dreams, sensibilities and longings to persuade us to return to some of the romantic ideals and motifs that modern art has, for the most part, forsaken. Romanticism, but with a difference. His art couples a nostalgia for romanticism with an acute sense of the needs of modernity.

Together with writer and critic Claudia Moscovici, Leonardo is cofounder of the cultural movement of post-romanticism (www.postromanticism.com). Postromanticism is a contemporary artistic movement that places passion at the center of human life, art and poetry. In painting and sculpture it emphasizes representational art that depicts the beauty of human figures and evokes sensuality and the richness of human emotions.

Leonardo Pereznieto finds inspiration for his art in the writings of philosopher and humanist L. Ron Hubbard, who wrote: "A culture is only as great as its dreams and its dreams are dreamed by artists."

For more information visit:

www.leonardopereznieto.com
www.postromanticism.com
www.lronhubbard.org

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