Dimensions: 185 x 135 cm (dimensions of each work)
each part of the diptych signed, dated and described on the reverse on the stretcher: 'SŁAWOMIR LEWCZUK 2012. OIL-PL. 190 x 270 CM [work number] | Cycle 'SYMPTOMS'. - "AROUND THE SPACE II" and installation instructions
described on the reverse of each part of the diptych: 'BUNKER | LEWCZUK'
Exhibited
"Slawomir Lewczuk. Discipline of Record 4", BWA Galeria Sanocka, Sanok, March 2012
"Slawomir Lewczuk. Symptoms", Artists' House Gallery 3, Warsaw, July 2012
"Slawomir Lewczuk. Discipline of Record. Painting", Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski Art Exhibition Office, January 2013
"Slawomir Lewczuk. Painting" Gallery of Contemporary Art BWA "Sokol" Nowy Sącz, January 2014
"Slawomir Lewczuk. Painting", BWA Tarnów (exhibition in the foyer of the L. Solski Theater in Tarnów), February 2014
"Slawomir Lewczuk. Painting", Museum "Dwory Karwacjanów i Gładyszów", Gorlice, March 2014.
"Slawomir Lewczuk. Painting," BWA Art Gallery, Krosno, 2016
"Slawomir Lewczuk. Painting," BWA Sandomierz Gallery, March 2017
"Slawomir Lewczuk. Painting," NCK Center Gallery exhibition, Krakow, October 2017.
"Slawomir Lewczuk. The Other Side," ZPAP OK, Pryzmat Gallery, Krakow, 2018
"Slawomir Lewczuk. The Discipline of Recording," Pryzmat Gallery, Krakow, 2019
Literature
Slawomir Lewczuk. Discipline of Record 4, exhibition folder, BWA Galeria Sanocka, Sanok 2012 (il.).
Slawomir Lewczuk. Discipline of Record. Painting, Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski 2013, p. 25 (il.).
Slawomir Lewczuk. Painting, exhibition folder in the foyer of the L. Solski Theater in Tarnów, 2014 (il.).
Slawomir Lewczuk. Painting, exhibition folder, BWA Art Gallery Krosno 2016 (il.).
Slawomir Lewczuk. Painting, exhibition folder, Gallery 72, Chelm 2017 (il.).
Slawomir Lewczuk. Painting, exhibition folder, BWA Gallery, Sandomierz 2017 (ill. cover)
Łukasz Gazur, Excess 'but. Slawomir Lewczuk - Witold Wojtkiewicz Award 2019 [in:] "Voice of the Visual Artists", 02.2019 (8), pp. 13-15, cover (il.).
Slawomir Lewczuk. Discipline of Recording, ZPAP OK, Pryzmat Gallery, Krakow 2019, pp. 110-111 (il.).
Biography
Lewczuk Slawomir (1938-2020). Artist, graphic designer, draughtsman, stage designer, was born in Cherkasy in Volhynia. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Cracow University of Technology and, in 1965, from painting at the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts, in the studio of Emil Krcha. He was associated with the Krakow art community, but functioned on its fringes. The protagonists of his works were invariably people captured in various constellations. Their silhouettes are stripped of color - mostly gray, always nameless, often faceless, mutilated or deformed. They often have accentuated ears, noses, mouths, tongues - organs through which contacts in the world take place. For what the artist had in mind first and foremost was the interpersonal space - the man in his paintings always appears in relation to another man/people/environment. In these relationships he loses his individuality - he becomes a "gray mass", "kneaded" in the fashion of others. His paintings are disciplined, orderly, governed by strict rigor; in many of them the content is enclosed in a simple, laconic sign. The surprising contexts in which the figures in Levchuk's paintings appear bring to mind associations with surrealism, but it is difficult to suspect him of succumbing to the mechanisms of automatic recording. Indeed, these contexts were deeply thought out, and the message of his works was very clear.
Slawomir Lewczuk received the 2019 Witold Wojtkiewicz Award organized by the Cracow District of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers and awarded for the best exhibition of painting, drawing or graphic art held in Cracow during its consecutive annual edition.
