Francisco
Ledesma
"When experiencing Dipersion, the relationship between the audience and the paintings must be direct, personal and spontaneous"
Francisco Ledesma is a visual artist and writer from Aguascalientes, Mexico, where he resides and carries out his artistic work.
The painting of Ledesma is outside the orbit of any school or trend, it is an absolutely personal work, focused on the use of techniques and procedures of application of oil created and developed by him, which makes his art original and unique. These discoveries are the product of experimentation and reflection on the field of painting. Ledesma is the creator of the technique that is entitled Oil Dispersion. His work is present on the art scene through his creative process and his interest to experiment, discover, understand and apply new knowledge, methods, techniques and ideas to the field of painting. Visual artist for the last twenty five years. More than 30 solo local and national exhibitions (three exhibitions included in the Trilogy of Silence: Ritual of Silence, Recapitulation of Silence and Breaking the Silence) including the Manuel Felguérez Museum in the city of Zacatecas (2013) and many national and international collectives. In 2015 he exhibited at the World Art Gallery, Humeneé, Slovakia.
His work is in private collections both in Mexico and abroad. In June 2016 he presented his exhibition Dispersion in the City Gallery of Aguascalientes. In December 2016, the art book Dispersion, paintings of Francisco Ledesma, edited by the Instituto Municipal Aguascalentense para la Cultura, came to light. In October of 2017 he presented the exhibition Improbable Animals, in Multiforo Revolucion in the city of Tijuana, México. In November 2017 he presented his work Buque Fantasma, (Phantom Vessel), together with the music composer Niki Harlafti, in the Constellation room in the city of Chicago, United States. Soon a retrospective exhibition of his work will be presented in his city of origin, which will commemorate 25 years of work, entitled Memory of Color.