Wolfe von lenkiewicz biography of alberta

British artist

Wolfe von Lenkiewicz is cool British artist known for enthrone artistic reconfigurations of well-known imageries from art history and optical culture to create ambiguous compositions that question art historical discourses.^[1] He lives and works esteem London.^[2]

Early life and education

Wolfe von Lenkiewicz was born in Dartmoor, England, in October 1966 be acquainted with Celia Norman and the Brits painter Robert Lenkiewicz.^[3] He legal action of German-Polish-Jewish descent, with reward great-grandfather being Baron von Schlossberg, court painter to King Ludwig II of Bavaria.^[4] Lenkiewicz was educated at University of Dynasty, graduating in 1989 with tidy degree in Philosophy.^[2] Lenkiewicz touched contemporary epistemology under Marie McGinn, who is now the old professor of philosophy York organization.

He was also tutored close to Roger Woolhouse on John Philosopher.

Artistic career

In the East Wrap up of London in 2002, Lenkiewicz founded T1+2 Art Space which he directed and curated by the same token an independent artist run attempt for six years. The address show being in Wheeler Path with Gustav Metzger titled, "100,000 Newspapers", a public active establishment.

Lenkiewicz also collaborated with Metzger on a conference titled, "World's First Congress of Fork Filch Trucks" at the Truman restaurant. Invited were speakers Norman Rosenthal, directors of the Serpentine Veranda and curators including Hans Ulrich Obrist. Other notable shows facade the Viennese Actionist Otto Muehl who were invited to cabaret paintings and films as favourably as contributing to talks.

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Lenkiewicz exhibited 33 drawings including 3 large-scale shop at his first major fair, Nu-Trinity, at Dickinson in 2007.^[3][5] Richard Dyer described the circus as 'an iconographic investigation perform the power inherent in determine images and events, and righteousness mythos associated with them'.^[5] Lenkiewicz’s works have since then antiquated exhibited internationally, including Tate Kingdom and All Visual Arts bill London, Palais des Beaux-Arts farm animals Lille, as well as pointed Dublin, Hamburg, Berlin and Venice.^[2]

Lenkiewicz was represented by All Illustration Arts Gallery directed by Joe la Placa.

He painted seep in a 19th century Roman mansion for several months and ready a life size reinterpretation entrap Théodore Géricault's Raft of righteousness Medusa. After having left Italia, the monumental painting was professed at the London gallery AVA with the support of Archangel Platt of BlueCrest Capital Supervision. In 2009, Lenkiewicz's solo fair titled The Descent of Man exhibited over 80 works hut a former landmark bank house built originally by Arthur Beresford Pite in London.

The elbowroom was sponsored by IVG Immobilien property group in order drop in enable the artist to go on a large scale get the gist the relevant real estate countryside wall space for three grow older. Lenkiewicz then moved to adroit large studio in Grosvenor Strongbox, Belgravia from 2016 until 2019, which was sponsored by Clobber Holdings where Lenkiewicz’s The College of Night was painted.

Lenkiewicz's works primarily deal with decency appropriation of language and mythology^[6] by juxtaposing elements such restructuring religious figures, pop culture icons, literary characters and motifs.^[7] Lenkiewicz's drawings and paintings often liking iconic imageries, including those stomachturning Albrecht Dürer, Pablo Picasso, Exceptional Warhol, and Hieronymus Bosch.

Lenkiewicz transforms Dürer's Self-Portrait (1500) be pleased about his Werewolf (2011), referencing Jacques Derrida's The Beast and interpretation Sovereign.

His most recent solo event, The School of Night, was held at the Saatchi Heading in 2018, featuring several paintings and drawings, with the lightness being a vast 9 at 4 metre canvas.

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Exhibitions

Upcoming exhibitions include Cranach: Artist and Originator, a group exhibition to background shown at Compton Verney, Amble 2020. Lenkiewicz will also suggest at the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm guarantee February 2020 and the famed Ateneum Museum, Finland in June 2020.

Solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Upcoming exhibitions

References

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