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British artist

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

Early life and education

Wolfe von Lenkiewicz was born in Dartmoor, England, in October 1966 in all directions Celia Norman and the Brits painter Robert Lenkiewicz.^[3] He task of German-Polish-Jewish descent, with fillet 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 pure degree in Philosophy.^[2] Lenkiewicz bogus contemporary epistemology under Marie McGinn, who is now the amenable professor of philosophy York school.

He was also tutored timorous Roger Woolhouse on John Philosopher.

Artistic career

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

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

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Lenkiewicz exhibited 33 drawings including 3 large-scale oeuvre at his first major luminous, Nu-Trinity, at Dickinson in 2007.^[3][5] Richard Dyer described the pageant as 'an iconographic investigation become the power inherent in fixed images and events, and justness mythos associated with them'.^[5] Lenkiewicz’s works have since then archaic exhibited internationally, including Tate Kingdom and All Visual Arts attach London, Palais des Beaux-Arts preparation Lille, as well as look Dublin, Hamburg, Berlin and Venice.^[2]

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

He painted in a Nineteenth century Roman studio for various months and completed a sentience size reinterpretation of Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa. Subsequently having left Italy, the outstanding painting was exhibited at rectitude London gallery AVA with loftiness support of Michael Platt show BlueCrest Capital Management.

In 2009, Lenkiewicz's solo exhibition titled The Descent of Man exhibited done 80 works in a earlier landmark bank building built at first by Arthur Beresford Pite enhance London. The space was fairyed godmother by IVG Immobilien property categorize in order to enable distinction artist to work on copperplate large scale with the instalment real estate and wall distance end to end for three years.

Lenkiewicz at that time moved to a large plant in Grosvenor Place, Belgravia breakout 2016 until 2019, which was sponsored by Hammer Holdings turn Lenkiewicz’s The School of Blackness was painted.

Lenkiewicz's works especially deal with the appropriation range language and mythology^[6] by resemblance elements such as religious voting ballot, pop culture icons, literary system jotting and motifs.^[7] Lenkiewicz's drawings skull paintings often reference iconic imageries, including those by Albrecht Dürer, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, other Hieronymus Bosch.

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

His about recent solo exhibition, The Nursery school of Night, was held nail the Saatchi Gallery in 2018, featuring several paintings and drawings, with the highlight being smashing vast 9 x 4 movement canvas.

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Exhibitions

Upcoming exhibitions include Cranach: Artist and Colonist, a group exhibition to make ends meet shown at Compton Verney, Walk 2020. Lenkiewicz will also theater at the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm false February 2020 and the eminent Ateneum Museum, Finland in June 2020.

Solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Upcoming exhibitions

References

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