Lluís Lleó grew up surrounded by a family of painters and artists. Throughout his younger years, he had struggled in school, fascinated by art rather than the classroom. Lleó was never formally trained in painting, however at the age of 16 he began working with his father who was a painter by profession. He learned technical skill in these teenage years, focusing on frescoes and touring through Romanesque churches in Spain. Lleo’s body of work is about fragility, vulnerability and the tension between the substances. Working with a sandstone in his 2017 sculptural installation on Park Avenue, New York, as well as with oil on canvas and hand-presses paper from Nepal and Bhutan, each of these mediums in their own right have the ability to tear or crumble with the slightest tremor or disturbance.