Leandro Erlich at Palazzo Reale in Milan, his first highly anticipated European exhibition

The renowned Argentine artist plays with our perception to show the illusions of cognition and to shake our certainties.

LEANDRO ELRICH, CLASSROOM (2017), Wood, window, desk, chair, door, glass, light. Image courtesy Leandro Elrich.

LEANDRO ELRICH, PORT OF REFLECTIONS (2014), Mixed media installation. Image courtesy of Leandro Elrich.

LEANDRO ELRICH, Mixed media installation, Mixed media. Image courtesy of Leandro Elrich.

Until 4 October 2023, Palazzo Reale Milano hosts a wide monograph by Leandro Erlich, one of the world’s leading contemporary art figures. The Argentine artist is famous for his large site-specific installations that transform the ordinary into extraordinary and with which the public can interact.

Houses uprooted and suspended in the air, elevators that lead nowhere, tangled escalators, bewildering and surreal sculptures and videos. Everything is different from what it seems, and our spatial coordinates, as well as our perception, are deliberately disoriented. The mechanisms of our cognition are probed through particular perspectives, showing the gap between what we see and what we believe.

LEANDRO ELRICH, CLASSROOM (2017), Wood, window, desk, chair, door, glass, light.

Image courtesy Leandro Elrich.

LEANDRO ELRICH, PORT OF REFLECTIONS (2014), Mixed media installation.

Image courtesy of Leandro Elrich.

LEANDRO ELRICH, Mixed media installation, Mixed media.

Image courtesy of Leandro Elrich.