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Wolfe Von Lenkiewicz (Hardcover)
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Wolfe Von Lenkiewicz (Hardcover)
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This is the first major monograph on the work of one of Britain's
most dynamic artists, Wolfe von Lenkiewicz. His striking paintings
and drawings mine the hallowed halls of art history and popular
culture in search of visual languages, imagery, themes and motifs
that he can appropriate, adapt, use and abuse, bringing together
different movements, genres, periods and styles in dialogues that
are surprising, innovative and sometimes provocative. Lenkiewicz's
imagination and energy seem to be inexhaustible, concocting endless
amazing hybrids such as iconic Renaissance paintings invaded by
characters from nineteenth-century Japanese woodblocks, French
Revolutionary masterpieces spliced with German Romanticism, or
Cubism infiltrated by Victorian children's illustration. The result
is a peculiar and fantastical cast of characters and scenarios,
whether Nazi soldiers trampling through the snow towards a crashed
UFO in the middle of a village scene by Pieter Bruegel the Elder,
Snow White making an uncomfortable guest appearance in an already
troubling Balthus interior, or a guillotined head assuming a cameo
role in an otherwise serene still life. These painterly chimera are
cultural mash-ups. Sometimes irreverent, sometimes witty, other
times simply beautiful, odd and arresting amalgams, they are always
poignant, pertinent and decidedly thought-provoking, inviting the
viewer to think across time, cultures, countries and ideologies
about the many languages of art. In the process, Lenkiewicz has
established his own distinctive oeuvre, one that perhaps perfectly
illustrates the notion of post-modernity within painting - an
oeuvre of juxtapositions and non-sequiturs, binary oppositions and
the uncanny, ruptures and elisions, the real and the irrational. As
well as often encouraging us to look at the history of art with
fresh eyes, Lenkiewicz's practice asks about visual culture today,
about how our understanding of the past rests on shifting sands.
With an introduction by distinguished art critic Edward Lucie-Smith
and a major new essay by writer and editor Richard Dyer, this
beautifully designed and produced hardback book presents an
impressive selection of works produced by the artist between 2009
and 2015. Born in 1966 and based in London, Lenkiewicz is of German
and Polish descent; he studied philosophy at York University,
graduating in 1990. He is the son of the late painter Robert
Lenkiewicz and great grandson of Baron von Schlossberg, court
painter to King Ludwig II of Bavaria, the Swan King.
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