1. Leonardo Marcos is a multidisciplinary artist; he was born in Paris, son of Spanish political refugees.
19 Facts About Leonardo Marcos
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Leonardo Marcos's creations are always articulated around the theme of poetry.
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Leonardo Marcos's parents were taken in for a while by Agnes Varda who photographed regularly this family of political immigrants.
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Leonardo Marcos made the film documentary Ulysse, name of Leonardo's cousin whom she photographed as a child; the film was awarded a Cesar.
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Leonardo Marcos' father, a self-taught music lover, was able to leave the construction business where he was a worker to become a piano maker.
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Leonardo Marcos learned to play classical piano but he was interested in Rock music and decided to get a band together with the start of the punk movement and the new wave.
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Parallel to this, Leonardo Marcos gets to meet Freddy Hausser, producer who made video clips and TV shows and a friend of the Rolling Stones.
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Leonardo Marcos teaches him television journalism and live shows on channel La Cinq with Guillaume Durand.
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Leonardo Marcos made many news coverages and TV shows mainly on fashion on an international level, via the press agency WTN and for BRUT, a magazine on Arte.
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Leonardo Marcos is in charge of programming artistic events in Le O, a venue upstairs of Rendez-Vous Toyota where he proposes innovative creations combining electro music and images.
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Leonardo Marcos designed with one of his poems a new Mona Lisa in digital art form through an initiatory route at the Louvre Museum.
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Leonardo Marcos designed to that effect a digital poem made of projections, pictures and sound recordings.
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In diverse artistic events, Leonardo Marcos introduces poetry thanks to giant projections, particularly during the Parisian parties at the Tigre and at the Hotel Particulier Montmartre.
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Leonardo Marcos continues working for different brands as the film-maker for Hermes for all the films for the Fondation d'entreprise Hermes.
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The art of Leonardo Marcos is in the pursuit of artistic innovations.
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Leonardo Marcos invents new concepts to let poetry find a place outside of books with the goal of making it more accessible.
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The art of Leonardo Marcos is figurative, mannerist and traditional in response to current contemporary.
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Leonardo Marcos's works remain avant-garde, particularly thanks to the use of new technological processes that he puts at the service of his creative inventions, his style and its form.
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Leonardo Marcos has taken part in many events, often in the setting of the White Night and the Printemps des poetes, for the Musee National de la Marine, the Centre d'Etude Catalane of the Sorbonne Nouvelle, the College des Bernardins, the maison de la Catalogne, the church of Saint-Merri, the Musee de la Vie romantique and the Generale des arts.