Wolfe von lenkiewicz biography template

British artist

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

Early life and education

Wolfe von Lenkiewicz was born in Dartmoor, England, in October 1966 make use of Celia Norman and the Land 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 Royalty, graduating in 1989 with graceful degree in Philosophy.^[2] Lenkiewicz moved contemporary epistemology under Marie McGinn, who is now the informal professor of philosophy York foundation.

He was also tutored manage without Roger Woolhouse on John Philosopher.

Artistic career

In the East Summit of London in 2002, Lenkiewicz founded T1+2 Art Space which he directed and curated owing to an independent artist run endeavour for six years. The induction show being in Wheeler Narrow road with Gustav Metzger titled, "100,000 Newspapers", a public active institution.

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

Artists shown at T1+2 read thanks to a list of names evade most of the generation divagate followed the YBAs in prestige East End.

Lenkiewicz exhibited 33 drawings including 3 large-scale plant at his first major circus, Nu-Trinity, at Dickinson in 2007.^[3][5] Richard Dyer described the circus as 'an iconographic investigation perform the power inherent in definite images and events, and probity mythos associated with them'.^[5] Lenkiewicz’s works have since then anachronistic exhibited internationally, including Tate Kingdom and All Visual Arts in vogue London, Palais des Beaux-Arts walk heavily Lille, as well as be sure about Dublin, Hamburg, Berlin and Venice.^[2]

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

He painted behave a 19th century Roman flat for several months and all set a life size reinterpretation break into Théodore Géricault's Raft of say publicly Medusa. After having left Italia, the monumental painting was avowed at the London gallery AVA with the support of Archangel Platt of BlueCrest Capital Governance. In 2009, Lenkiewicz's solo county show titled The Descent of Man exhibited over 80 works resolve a former landmark bank property built originally by Arthur Beresford Pite in London.

The spaciousness was sponsored by IVG Immobilien property group in order assign enable the artist to see to on a large scale reach a compromise the relevant real estate current wall space for three existence. Lenkiewicz then moved to great large studio in Grosvenor Clench, Belgravia from 2016 until 2019, which was sponsored by Punch Holdings where Lenkiewicz’s The College of Night was painted.

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

Lenkiewicz transforms Dürer's Self-Portrait (1500) jagged his Werewolf (2011), referencing Jacques Derrida's The Beast and excellence Sovereign.

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

Exhibitions

Upcoming exhibitions include Cranach: Artist and Groundbreaker, a group exhibition to rectify shown at Compton Verney, Parade 2020. Lenkiewicz will also intimate at the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm fall February 2020 and the esteemed Ateneum Museum, Finland in June 2020.

Solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Upcoming exhibitions

References

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