Dimensions: 190 x 520 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse of each piece: 'Leon Tarasewicz 1991 | 190 x 520'
on the reverse of each part stickers from the National Museum in Poznan
Origin
purchased directly from the artist
private collection, Poznan
DESA Unicum, 2020
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
National Museum in Poznań, permanent exhibition - Gallery of Contemporary Art
Literature
Jola Gola, Leon Tarasewicz, Warsaw 2007, p. 256 (il.).
Leon Tarasewicz. To Paint, Polish Pavilion, 49th International Biennale in Venice, p. 47 (ill.)
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", the "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."
