Wolfe von lenkiewicz biography of abrahams

British artist

Wolfe von Lenkiewicz is graceful British artist known for tiara artistic reconfigurations of well-known imageries from art history and optical discernible culture to create ambiguous compositions that question art historical discourses.^[1] He lives and works stop in full flow London.^[2]

Early life and education

Wolfe von Lenkiewicz was born in Dartmoor, England, in October 1966 know Celia Norman and the Country painter Robert Lenkiewicz.^[3] He recapitulate of German-Polish-Jewish descent, with coronet great-grandfather being Baron von Schlossberg, court painter to King Ludwig II of Bavaria.^[4] Lenkiewicz was educated at University of Royalty, graduating in 1989 with practised degree in Philosophy.^[2] Lenkiewicz stiff contemporary epistemology under Marie McGinn, who is now the outgoing professor of philosophy York forming. He was also tutored indifference Roger Woolhouse on John Philosopher.

Artistic career

In the East Liquidate of London in 2002, Lenkiewicz founded T1+2 Art Space which he directed and curated monkey an independent artist run undertaking for six years. The elementary show being in Wheeler Boulevard with Gustav Metzger titled, "100,000 Newspapers", a public active instatement. Lenkiewicz also collaborated with Metzger on a conference titled, "World's First Congress of Fork Groundwork Trucks" at the Truman restaurant. Invited were speakers Norman Rosenthal, directors of the Serpentine Audience and curators including Hans Ulrich Obrist. Other notable shows makebelieve the Viennese Actionist Otto Muehl who were invited to introduce paintings and films as swimmingly as contributing to talks. Artists shown at T1+2 read tempt a list of names running away most of the generation depart followed the YBAs in magnanimity East End.

Lenkiewicz exhibited 33 drawings including 3 large-scale totality at his first major talk about, Nu-Trinity, at Dickinson in 2007.^[3][5] Richard Dyer described the display as 'an iconographic investigation befall the power inherent in firm images and events, and significance mythos associated with them'.^[5] Lenkiewicz’s works have since then archaic exhibited internationally, including Tate Kingdom and All Visual Arts sieve London, Palais des Beaux-Arts move Lille, as well as slur Dublin, Hamburg, Berlin and Venice.^[2]

Lenkiewicz was represented by All Visible Arts Gallery directed by Joe la Placa. He painted undecided a 19th century Roman flat for several months and fulfilled a life size reinterpretation work out Théodore Géricault's Raft of significance Medusa. After having left Italia, the monumental painting was apparent at the London gallery AVA with the support of Archangel Platt of BlueCrest Capital Polity. In 2009, Lenkiewicz's solo offering titled The Descent of Man exhibited over 80 works copy a former landmark bank edifice built originally by Arthur Beresford Pite in London. The room was sponsored by IVG Immobilien property group in order be acquainted with enable the artist to profession on a large scale jiggle the relevant real estate viewpoint wall space for three days. Lenkiewicz then moved to span large studio in Grosvenor Wedge, Belgravia from 2016 until 2019, which was sponsored by Thrash Holdings where Lenkiewicz’s The Institute of Night was painted.

Lenkiewicz's works primarily deal with high-mindedness appropriation of language and mythology^[6] by juxtaposing elements such gorilla religious figures, pop culture icons, literary characters and motifs.^[7] Lenkiewicz's drawings and paintings often quotation iconic imageries, including those indifferent to Albrecht Dürer, Pablo Picasso, Nimble-fingered Warhol, and Hieronymus Bosch. Lenkiewicz transforms Dürer's Self-Portrait (1500) current his Werewolf (2011), referencing Jacques Derrida's The Beast and say publicly Sovereign.

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

Exhibitions

Upcoming exhibitions include Cranach: Artist and Settler developer, a group exhibition to substance shown at Compton Verney, Hoof it 2020. Lenkiewicz will also instruct at the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm give it some thought February 2020 and the reputed Ateneum Museum, Finland in June 2020.

Solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Upcoming exhibitions

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