Luke Banach (alias Norman Leto), FISH, 2004.

100.0 x 119.5cm - oil, fiberboard signed in the middle of the lower edge: BANACH

on the reverse on the board signature: BANACH | 04

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Norman Leto (actually Lukasz Banach) was fascinated by the paintings of Zdzislaw Beksinski in the early period of his career. For several years, until Beksinski's tragic death, he had a regular e-mail correspondence with him.

In a letter dated July 16, 2004 12:10 pm, Beksinski writes to Banach:

"Excellent fish, although disgusting! The light comes out brilliantly for you. I like this painting very much."

In response on July 17, 2004 21:12:

"What can I write - that I am very happy that you like the fish and the light. The Lord infected me with this type of partially realistic lighting a few years ago, so the circle is kind of closing."



Image reproduced and described:

- Jaroslaw Mikolaj Skoczeń, Detox. Zdzislaw Beksinski Norman Leto. Correspondence/Conversation, Warsaw 2018, pp. 729-730, il black and white.



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Łukasz Banach (since 2007 artistic pseudonym Norman Leto) (born Bochnia August 23, 1980, lives in Warsaw) - self-taught artist, deals with painting and media art. He focuses not on "image work" (extracted and processed from so-called reality), but on images generated by computer programs (which he creates himself) from imagination, emotions, his own sensations, mental states, etc. Painting plays an important role in his work, treated as an element of action, an expression of spontaneous expression, a building block of more developed structures. His exhibition realizations take the form of multimedia installations, combining film, music, painting. In 2010, he completed and presented at the Era New Horizons festival in Wroclaw a full-length film Sailor, in which he "used and juxtaposed various means of expression and types of narration in the form of a collage: traditional fiction, computer simulations, popular science film formula, long musical sequences and a voice from outside the frame" (Ewa Gorządek, http://culture.pl/pl/tworca/norman-leto-wlasc-lukasz-banach). Since 2007, the artist has presented his solo exhibitions and participated in collective events in leading institutions at home and abroad, his works are in collections including the National Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCAK) in Cracow, the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, the ING Polish Art Foundation.

The State Art Gallery in Sopot hosted Norman Leto's exhibition People Who Still Want Something from Me (11 March - 10 April 2016).