About Ezekiel.

Ezequiel de León Cruz, son of the illustrious Spanish sculptor and restorer Ezequiel de León y Domínguez and considered the main exponent of religious sculpture in the Canary Islands in the 20th and early 21st centuries, from whom all his enthusiasm and professional career as an artist precedes.

Ezequiel spent his entire childhood in his father's studio, where he focused on painting and drawing, without neglecting the restoration of sculpture. His first sketches were influenced by Dalí's surrealism, using the landscape as the main element. Together with one of his brothers, he accompanied his father to National Congresses on the Restoration and Conservation of Cultural Assets between 1988 and 1996, such as Bilbao, Valencia, Seville, Cuenca and Tarragona.

As a young child, he accompanied his father to make the flower carpets for Corpus Christi in the town of La Orotava. Over time, Ezequiel, his father, saw that he had a worthy successor in this noble art and so began his career as a carpet maker in 1989.

In his early years he astonished the world as an autodidact, with exact copies of the great geniuses of painting, such as: Murillo, Goya, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Caravaggio or Velázquez, earning the latter as a nickname among his followers. In 1991 he received an international award in the category of "Artistic Creativity" for his work and work that he collected in Madrid, while the following year, in April 1992, he attended the Universal Exposition of Seville, EXPO-92, as a guest, representing the Carpets of the Town of La Orotava, executing in turn with the mastery granted to him, a detail of one of the works of Néstor Martín-Fernández de la Torre, an eminent Gran Canarian artist of international fame.

In 1997 he took charge of the central tapestry of the Monumental Carpet, but it was not until 1999 when he produced his largest work to date: Ezequiel captured in sand the arms of Michelangelo's creation, each measuring 16 metres, totalling 32 metres in length and 8 metres wide at the arm. This marked a before and after in his career. In 2002 he began to travel to different parts of the world with a small group of carpet makers, where he developed this work at international conferences, similar meetings and anniversaries, such as in San Antonio, Texas on two occasions, Mexico or Germany, and in Spanish cities such as Pontevedra, Barcelona and Rota. Without leaving aside the Canary Islands geography. His great success and international recognition as a unique art in the world began to grow.

Having already become the father of anatomy and mastering volumes, perspectives and transparencies, he returns to his starting point, returning to a clearer hyperrealism: in 2019 he gives life to the most striking look that has ever been seen through this art. He is currently a Professor and Master Carpet Maker at the Perdigón Art Academy in Villa de la Orotava, where his passion for always creating the ephemeral has led him to establish himself as one of the world's leading exponents of the art of Carpets.