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Yann Leto’s vividly anarchic paintings reimagine art history and contemporary life as a single, unstable narrative—where satire, symbolism, and sociopolitical critique collide in a visceral visual language.
Yann Leto (b. 1979, Bordeaux, France) lives and works in Rome and Madrid. His practice fuses dense figurative painting, collage, and digital archives to explore sociopolitical unrest, irony, and human behavior. Influenced by classical painting, comics, and post-war expressionism, Leto's work repositions the individual in a fragmented, media-saturated world. He was artist-in-residence at the Royal Spanish Academy in Rome (2015–2016) and has exhibited widely across Europe and the United States.