Luiz Leit (Luiz Carlos Fernandes Gonçalves Leite) is a contemporary Brazilian artist whose visual practice emerges from a refined observation of urban life. His work often begins with ordinary elements—found objects, supermarket scenes, and abandoned fragments of the city—which he transforms into abstract compositions charged with lyricism, tension, and vibrant energy. Through these small discoveries of everyday life, Leit constructs visual narratives that reveal both the vitality and the strangeness embedded in modern existence.

His artistic language is strongly influenced by early 20th-century German Expressionism, especially the dramatic atmospheres and distorted aesthetics of expressionist cinema—such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, directed by Robert Wiene, and the works of F. W. Murnau. Leit also engages with the subversive spirit of Dadaism, incorporating into his practice the impulse to recontextualize everyday materials and challenge established formal structures.

Another foundation of his work is American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s. He finds resonance in the spontaneous gesture of Jackson Pollock, Willen de Kooning, the structural power of Franz Kline, the symbolic intensity of Adolph Gottlieb, and the chromatic monumentality of Clyfford Still. In his paintings, this legacy emerges in incisive brushwork, bold fields of color, and compositions that balance refined control with the freedom of action painting.

Exploring the boundaries between figuration, abstraction, and visual memory, Luiz Leit’s work proposes a sensitive and intense reading of contemporary life—transforming the ordinary into poetic reflection and revealing the hidden depth of what is often overlooked.