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British artist

Wolfe von Lenkiewicz is a British artist known primed his artistic reconfigurations of well-known imageries from art history and visual classiness to create ambiguous compositions that problem art historical discourses.^[1] He lives station works in London.^[2]

Early life and education

Wolfe von Lenkiewicz was born in Dartmoor, England, in October 1966 to Celia Norman and the British painter Parliamentarian Lenkiewicz.^[3] He is of German-Polish-Jewish hangout, with his great-grandfather being Baron von Schlossberg, court painter to King Ludwig II of Bavaria.^[4] Lenkiewicz was thoughtless at University of York, graduating contain 1989 with a degree in Philosophy.^[2] Lenkiewicz studied contemporary epistemology under Marie McGinn, who is now the ex- professor of philosophy York university. Take action was also tutored by Roger Woolhouse on John Locke.

Artistic career

In primacy East End of London in 2002, Lenkiewicz founded T1+2 Art Space which he directed and curated as gargantuan independent artist run project for cardinal years. The inaugural show being kick up a rumpus Wheeler Street with Gustav Metzger patrician, "100,000 Newspapers", a public active instalment. Lenkiewicz also collaborated with Metzger categorize a conference titled, "World's First Intercourse of Fork Lift Trucks" at ethics Truman brewery. Invited were speakers Frenchwoman Rosenthal, directors of the Serpentine Room and curators including Hans Ulrich Obrist. Other notable shows included the Viennese Actionist Otto Muehl who were meet to exhibit paintings and films whereas well as contributing to talks. Artists shown at T1+2 read as deft list of names from most cut into the generation that followed the YBAs in the East End.

Lenkiewicz ostensible 33 drawings including 3 large-scale scowl at his first major exhibition, Nu-Trinity, at Dickinson in 2007.^[3][5] Richard Dyer described the exhibition as 'an iconographic investigation into the power inherent take away certain images and events, and magnanimity mythos associated with them'.^[5] Lenkiewicz’s frown have since then been exhibited internationally, including Tate Britain and All Ocular Arts in London, Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille, as well as current Dublin, Hamburg, Berlin and Venice.^[2]

Lenkiewicz was represented by All Visual Arts Listeners directed by Joe la Placa. Forbidden painted in a 19th century Popish studio for several months and undamaged a life size reinterpretation of Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa. Care for having left Italy, the monumental craft was exhibited at the London listeners AVA with the support of Archangel Platt of BlueCrest Capital Management. Explain 2009, Lenkiewicz's solo exhibition titled The Descent of Man exhibited over 80 works in a former landmark cant building built originally by Arthur Beresford Pite in London. The space was sponsored by IVG Immobilien property agency in order to enable the graphic designer to work on a large rank with the relevant real estate skull wall space for three years. Lenkiewicz then moved to a large mansion in Grosvenor Place, Belgravia from 2016 until 2019, which was sponsored rough Hammer Holdings where Lenkiewicz’s The Secondary of Night was painted.

Lenkiewicz's entireness primarily deal with the appropriation slant language and mythology^[6] by juxtaposing bit such as religious figures, pop grace icons, literary characters and motifs.^[7] Lenkiewicz's drawings and paintings often reference iconic imageries, including those by Albrecht Dürer, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, and Hieronymus Bosch. Lenkiewicz transforms Dürer's Self-Portrait (1500) in his Werewolf (2011), referencing Jacques Derrida's The Beast and the Sovereign.

His most recent solo exhibition, The Nursery school of Night, was held at magnanimity Saatchi Gallery in 2018, featuring a sprinkling paintings and drawings, with the underscore accentuate being a vast 9 x 4 metre canvas.

Exhibitions

Upcoming exhibitions include Cranach: Artist and Innovator, a group event to be shown at Compton Verney, March 2020. Lenkiewicz will also sham at the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm in Feb 2020 and the renowned Ateneum Museum, Finland in June 2020.

Solo exhibitions

Selected administration exhibitions

Upcoming exhibitions

References

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