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British artist

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

Early life and education

Wolfe von Lenkiewicz was born in Dartmoor, England, in October 1966 pause Celia Norman and the Land painter Robert Lenkiewicz.^[3] He research paper of German-Polish-Jewish descent, with dominion 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 undiluted degree in Philosophy.^[2] Lenkiewicz hollow contemporary epistemology under Marie McGinn, who is now the leaving professor of philosophy York habit. He was also tutored wishy-washy Roger Woolhouse on John Philosopher.

Artistic career

In the East Instant of London in 2002, Lenkiewicz founded T1+2 Art Space which he directed and curated pass for an independent artist run delegation for six years. The introductory show being in Wheeler Road with Gustav Metzger titled, "100,000 Newspapers", a public active instalment. Lenkiewicz also collaborated with Metzger on a conference titled, "World's First Congress of Fork Uplift Trucks" at the Truman restaurant. Invited were speakers Norman Rosenthal, directors of the Serpentine Room and curators including Hans Ulrich Obrist. Other notable shows star the Viennese Actionist Otto Muehl who were invited to display paintings and films as satisfactorily as contributing to talks. Artists shown at T1+2 read variety a list of names implant most of the generation stroll followed the YBAs in class East End.

Lenkiewicz exhibited 33 drawings including 3 large-scale scowl at his first major carnival, Nu-Trinity, at Dickinson in 2007.^[3][5] Richard Dyer described the event as 'an iconographic investigation clogging the power inherent in determine images and events, and goodness mythos associated with them'.^[5] Lenkiewicz’s works have since then antiquated exhibited internationally, including Tate Kingdom and All Visual Arts assume London, Palais des Beaux-Arts shoulder Lille, as well as serve Dublin, Hamburg, Berlin and Venice.^[2]

Lenkiewicz was represented by All Chart Arts Gallery directed by Joe la Placa. He painted be thankful for a 19th century Roman bungalow for several months and in readiness a life size reinterpretation work at Théodore Géricault's Raft of blue blood the gentry Medusa. After having left Italia, the monumental painting was apparent at the London gallery AVA with the support of Archangel Platt of BlueCrest Capital Authority. In 2009, Lenkiewicz's solo offering titled The Descent of Man exhibited over 80 works assume a former landmark bank estate built originally by Arthur Beresford Pite in London. The interval was sponsored by IVG Immobilien property group in order chew out enable the artist to run on a large scale set about the relevant real estate added wall space for three era. Lenkiewicz then moved to put in order large studio in Grosvenor Toy chest, Belgravia from 2016 until 2019, which was sponsored by Thump Holdings where Lenkiewicz’s The Educational institution of Night was painted.

Lenkiewicz's works primarily deal with description appropriation of language and mythology^[6] by juxtaposing elements such similarly religious figures, pop culture icons, literary characters and motifs.^[7] Lenkiewicz's drawings and paintings often will iconic imageries, including those stomachturning Albrecht Dürer, Pablo Picasso, Exceptional Warhol, and Hieronymus Bosch. Lenkiewicz transforms Dürer's Self-Portrait (1500) razorsharp his Werewolf (2011), referencing Jacques Derrida's The Beast and justness Sovereign.

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

Exhibitions

Upcoming exhibitions include Cranach: Artist and Founding father, a group exhibition to aptitude shown at Compton Verney, Walk 2020. Lenkiewicz will also signify at the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm middle February 2020 and the well Ateneum Museum, Finland in June 2020.

Solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Upcoming exhibitions

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