Bronze, H. with base 35 x 38 x 24 cm
ed. 6/8
The artist works in visual arts, painting, photography, creates video works and 3D animations. His real name is Luke Banach. The artistic pseudonym was created while working on one of his projects. The most important thing for the artist is free expression, emotion and the creative act. His paintings, like his films, are marked by expressionist and figurative features, touch on social themes, but above all autobiographical motifs. The artist's works have been present at exhibitions in Poland and abroad, such as "Jeune création européene" (Paris 2007), "Perfect Summer, New Media Artists" (Gallery Vertexlist, New York 2008), the National Museum in Cracow (2009). They can be found in the collections of, among others: CCA Ujazdowski Castle, National Museum in Krakow, Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok, ING Polish Art Foundation, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (MOCAK), as well as many private collections in Poland and abroad.
"Lumps of biography are three-dimensional charts of data from the life of the person portrayed. With the help of a questionnaire, dozens of questions about measurable values from life, it is possible to build a digital lump which is served by a simple algorithm I constructed. The shape of the solid is influenced by very different numbers. For example, the number of countries visited (the zigzagging of the solid), the number of Google searches on the person portrayed (the volume of the solid), the number of sexual partners, average earnings, recurrence of days, identified mental illnesses and so on. Basically, it's a similar range of data that insurance companies are interested in. In the case of deceased people, it may be biographical data, not necessarily first-hand. Based on these, the computer draws a lump, which can then be 3D printed or immortalized in a more permanent material. This is absolutely NOT a scientific attempt to capture the value of someone's life, it is simply an expression on the subject. I treat my solids as a form of modern expressive portraiture. Sometimes such lumps appear in the back of my mind when I think of a particular person. Instead of a face, I see the shape of a resume."
Norman Leto
