Dimensions: 130 x 190 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'ŁUKASZ KOROLKIEWICZ | 2011 | "IMAGINATYK"'
Origin:
aTAK Gallery, Warsaw
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Łukasz Korolkiewicz. Peripheries, aTAK Gallery, Warsaw, 17.05-27.07.2013
Biography
Łukasz Korolkiewicz is the most important creator of hyperrealist painting in Poland. His works are an accurate reproduction of images recorded on photographic film, with a full spectrum of light refraction, so essential for the evoked medium. In his compositions, the artist tries to reproduce the surrounding reality as closely as possible. For many, his paintings are not only proof of his virtuosity of craftsmanship and perfect mastery of the painting technique, but also a record of the everyday life of the artistic and queer community of the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1970s, together with Andrzej Bielawski and Ewa Kuryluk, he formed the Śmietanka group, and was also involved in the "O poprawę" art movement. He received many awards including the Independent Culture Committee Award and the Jan Cybis Award (1991). In 2002, he had a retrospective exhibition at the Zachęta Gallery. His paintings, painted in the manner of photorealism, are characterized by a certain mysteriousness and ephemerality. Constantly recurring themes are numerous self-portraits in interiors or gardens, scenes from the daily life of his own acquaintances and depressing Prague backyards.
