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Leo Villareal b. 1967, Albuquerque, NM, USA. Lives and works in New York, NY, USA
Using strobe lights, neon and, most recently, LEDs activated by his own custom-made software, Leo Villareal’s mesmerising sculptures and installations are animated by complex sequencing. The 19,600 white LED lights that form Cylinder II (2012) are orchestrated in such a way that they create endlessly changing patterns, evoking meteor showers, falling snow, clouds of fireflies and other natural phenomena. The lights perform abstract choreographs in space. Their intensity and speed changes; they shimmer, glow, appear to rise and fall or oscillate. Villareal explains that the sequencing has no beginning, middle or end and says, ‘it’s like an elaborate shuffle scheme, it’s never going to repeat the same progression of sequences again.’
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In this sparkling installation entitled Volume, artist Leo Villareal took a handful of twinkling stars and brought them down to earth. Suspended from the ceiling, the cylinder-shaped piece featured more than 20,000 LED lights set against reflective, mirror-finished stainless steel, which created a three dimensional space where light could come alive.

The patterns of illumination, controlled by Villareal’s software code design, move in various speeds, cycles of on and off, and waves of brightness and darkness. According to one reviewer, “The piece is a dazzling tone poem that draws the viewer into a deep, abstract space as it warps temporal and visual perception.”

Villareal is no novice when it comes to amazing light sculptures. Check out this 200-foot-long Light Show Tunnel that he installed in the Concourse walkway of the East and West Buildings located at the National Gallery of Art. The space between Villareal’s installations and his audience is an important factor, as viewers become intertwined with the lights that pulsate all around.
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Leo Villareal nasceu no Novo México e atualmente está vivendo e trabalhando em Nova York. Villareal é considerado um artista e seu trabalho combina luzes – LED e programação de computadores codificados – para criar displays iluminados.

Entre seus projetos encontra-se o Multiverse (2008) instalado na passarela da National Gallery Edifício Oriente. A escultura, que inclui cerca de 41.000 LED, é controlada por um software personalizado onde os LEDs correm por nós através de canais ao longo do espaço de 200 metros de comprimento. Um projeto conceitual ousado e ambicioso.

Seu trabalho encontra-se em grandes galerias, museus, artes, ambientes musicais,etc., um verdadeiro show de luzes e tecnologia.

Nos últimos anos o uso do LED teve um grande crescimento e vem sendo muito utilizado por indústrias e artistas de diversos segmentos.
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source: laopinion

De padre mexicano, Leo Villareal nació en Nuevo México y creció entre El Paso, Texas, y Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. “Sí, viví allá cuando era niño, así que le tengo mucho amor [a Ciudad Juárez] es algo muy importante para mí”.
Leo es considerado pionero en el uso de diodos emisores de luz codificados y programación de imágenes por computadora, asimismo su prestigiada carrera lo incluye en las colecciones permanentes del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Nueva York y en la Galería Nacional de Washington, D.C.
Mas el descubrimiento de su medio no sucedio de un día para otro. Leo estudió escultura y telecomunicación interactiva en las universidades de Harvard y de Nueva York, de donde se graduó a principios de los años noventa. Después de varios años de asistir al festival anual Burning Man, en el desierto de Nevada, se dio cuenta de que el software y la iluminación le apasionan, y en 1997 realiza su primera escultura con luz. “Usando simples luces estroboscópicas, un micrófono y un controlador, me di cuenta que podía crear arte importante con muy poca información. Esos fueron momentos increíbles de descubrimiento, fue fascinante. Hasta hoy, es la luz de lo que habla todo mi trabajo”, enfatizó.
Desde entonces, Leo Villareal no ha dejado de asistir al festival desértico del cual hoy forma parte de la mesa directiva, al lado de sus fundadores. “No es sólo una semana al año en el desierto, es algo en lo que trabajamos todo un año. Es una búsqueda en adaptación, se trata de dar y ser generoso, de participar en una serie de reglas maravillosas que juegan un papel en el mundo”, describió.
Para el extravagante festival que se realiza en septiembre, Leo participa en el campamento Los Victorianos o The Victorians. “No se trata de mi obra, se trata de trabajar en colaboración con un grupo de gente; ese es mi enfoque”.
Para finalizar, el artista invitó a que la gente se acerque y pase tiempo ante su más reciente y monumental escultura. “Las fotos y el video no capturan lo que uno percibe al estar ahí”.villareal
Leo Villareal received a BA in sculpture from Yale University in 1990, and a graduate degree from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Interactive Telecommunications Program. Recent exhibitions include, a survey show organized by the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, which continues to tour several museums in the United States. He has completed many site specific works including, Radiant Pathways, Rice University in Houston, Texas; Mulitverse, The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Diagonal Grid, Borusan Center for Culture and Arts, Istanbul, Turkey; Stars, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York, and the recently installed Hive, for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority at the Bleecker Street subway station in Manhattan. Among the projects Villareal is currently working on, Bay Lights for the Bay Bridge in San Francisco will spectacularly light the bridge, reflect on the water, and glisten throughout the city. Villareal is a focal point of the James Corner Field Operations design team that will renew Chicago’s Navy Pier, and commissioned installations at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and The Durst Organization in New York City, will be in visible public spaces. Villareal’s work is in the permanent collections of many museums including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C..
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source: thebaylightsorg
Leo Villareal is known internationally for his light sculptures and site-specific architectural works.His art is part of the permanent collections of prestigious museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum in Kagawa, Japan. Recent exhibitions include a survey show organized by the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, which continues to tour several museums in the United States. Leo received a BA in sculpture from Yale University in 1990, and a graduate degree from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Interactive Telecommunications Program. On October 22, Leo unveiled “Cosmos,” composed of nearly 12,000 mesmerizing LEDs installed above the Johnson Museum’s Mallin Sculpture Court at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Another new piece, “Buckyball,” largely inspired by the work of Buckminster Fuller, opened October 25 in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park. Major site-specific works include “Multiverse” in the National Gallery of Art’s Concourse in Washington, D.C. and “Hive” for the Bleecker Lafayette Street subway station in Manhattan. His work is also a focal point of the James Corner Field Operations design team that will renew Chicago’s Navy Pier.