Dimensions: 190 x 390 cm
each part of the triptych signed, dated and described at the top: 'L. Tarasewicz 1990' below inventory number: 'WKZ-5333/43/91 | pos. 9' and a view drawing of the triptych
Origins
Desa Unicum, 2018
private collection, Poland
Desa Unicum, 2020
institutional collection, Poland
Exhibited
Leon Tarasewicz, solo exhibition, Malmö, 19.09-25.10.1992
Leon Tarasewicz, solo exhibition, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, 10.05-01.06.1991
Literature
Leon Tarasewicz, [ed.] Jola Gola, Warsaw 2007, p. 257 (ill.) Leon Tarasewicz, exhibition catalog at Malmö Konsthall, Malmö 1992, p. nlb. (il.)
Biography
Lives and works in his native village of Waliły in the Bialystok region. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He received his diploma in 1984 in the studio of Prof. T. Dominik. He made his debut at Warsaw's Foksal Gallery in 1984. Cooperation with Foksal Gallery enabled the artist to present his works to a European audience. Beginning with a solo exhibition at the Galleria del Cavallino in Venice, the interest in the artist's work by art dealers and collectors from Europe and the USA continues. As early as 1988, Tarasewicz's works were presented at the Venice Biennale at the Aperto`88 exhibition. He has won many awards, including the "Jan Cybis", "Nowosielski Prize". The artist's early paintings resembled landscapes, from which he gradually eliminated "unnecessary" elements, proposing a very personal version of nature. In the works of recent years, he breaks the formal limitations of painting to a space stretched on a canvas frame. He often takes the opportunity to go beyond the stretcher frame. He paints the space of walls, columns, floors. As he himself says " ... painting from its dawn in the Neolithic period was created on walls, floors or ceilings."
