Leandro Barea

Pseudonym: Leandro
Category: Graphic designer and illustrator

   Cultura
 Curriculum

He graduated in Graphic Design and Illustration at Ramón Falcón School in Lugo in 1997. Since 2000, he has been collaborating in La Voz de Galicia with two cartoons a day, as well as in the supplements: 'Xatentendo.com' (graphic humour), 'Fugas' (leisure time) and 'Culturas' (culture), all of them in the same weekly newspaper. In 2002, he carried out some works for the magazine 'Rockdeluxe' and collaborated with the Galician newspaper 'A Peneira' in its graphic humour supplement ('O Farelo'), in the Portuguese newspaper 'Trevim' and its graphic humour supplement ('Bronkit'), illustrated part of 'A uva acidohíbrida de Forxán', a book by Alberto Pascual, and started to collaborate in the magazine ‘Golfiño’ for about a year until it disappeared in 2003. That same year, he published a one-paged story in the album H2OIL, a monograph created by several authors against the disaster caused by the 'Prestige', collaborated on some occasions in the magazine 'Monográfico' (2003 and 2004) and gave some of his drawings to make virtual cards in the web 'Vieiros.com' against American intervention in Irak. In 2004, he started to publish drawings in the magazines 'Mister K' and 'Barnablues'.

 Work & Activities

EXHIBITIONS:
-2001: Collective exhibition of caricatures in Seixal (Portugal) and collective exhibition of graphic humorists in Trento (Italy) owing to a homage paid to the Quixote.
-2002: Collective exhibition of Galician caricaturists in the Sixth Caricature Biennial of Ourense, collective exhibition of graphic humorists at Alicante University and collective exhibition of humorists in Indanha a Nova (Portugal).
-2003: Collective exhibition of humorists at the Humour Museum of Fene against the disaster caused by the Prestige, collective exhibition of the old pupils of 'Ramón Falcón' School of Applied Arts (Lugo), collective exhibition of graphic artists against the catastrophe of the 'Prestige' in A Coruña and Paris, exhibition in the Comic Saloon of A Coruña ('Viñetas dende o Atlantico', original strips from the album H2OIL), retrospective exhibition of IberoAmerican authors at Alcalá de Henares University and collective exhibition of graphic artists against repression after the Spanish Civil War organized by the Humour Museum of Fene.
-2004: Individual exhibition at ‘Mesón O Forno’ (Lugo), member of the panel and invited artist to exhibit his work out the contest at the Caricature Saloon of Vila Real (Portugal).
Some of his graphic humour works are permanently exhibited at the Humour Museum of Fene.

 Other Interesting Aspects

He has been a member of the Galician Association of Illustrators and the European Association of Humour Sketchers since 2004 and 2001 respectively. He was awarded the second prize at the Caricature Saloon of Vila Real - Portugal (2000), a honourable mention (2001) and the third prize (2002), the first prize at the Second Strip Band Contest of Irún (2001) and was finalist at ‘Curuxa Gráfica’ International Humour Contest (2002 and 2004), organized by the Humour Museum of Fene – Ferrol. He was also awarded the third prize in the First Graphic Humour Contest in Sober – Lugo (2003) and a mention at the 'Festivale Internazionale de Italia', Rome (2003).