The Archaeology of the Urban SurfaceBorn in 1975 and currently based in the vibrant cultural hub of Lyon, Léo Schmitt has emerged as a definitive voice in contemporary digital-image art. His practice is an obsessive, meticulous exploration of Rotella Italian Décollage, a style that treats the urban landscape not as a canvas, but as a living, breathing palimpsest. Through his lens, the weathered textures of street-side billboards and the shredded remnants of forgotten advertisements are transformed into high art. Schmitt captures the accidental composition of torn paper, finding a profound dia…
A chart of Léo Schmitt's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
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