Personal and political struggles become one in the exhibition with Leonilson at Malmö Konsthall
The autobiographical artistry of José Leonilson is considered one of the most important to emerge from the collapse of the Brazilian dictatorship in 1985. The first major European retrospective of the artist, who died of AIDS in 1993, will now be shown at Malmö Konsthall. In an intimate and direct form Leonilson depicted homosexuality, gender stereotypes, and the feeling of being an outsider.