Wolfe Von Lenkiewicz’s new ‘Mondrian’ Series featured in December’s Flaunt Magazine. See Full Article: here ➜
Image: Wolfe Von Lenkiewicz, The Blue Swallow, 2013, Oil on canvas. 68 x 75 cm. Courtesy the artist.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Proserpine, 1874, oil on canvas
Pre-Raphaelite Masterpiece By Rossetti Realises Over £3m At Sotheby's. (via Artlyst) http://bit.ly/1jlWQ0g
Leonora Carrington - The House Opposite, 1945 oil on canvas
'Leonora Carrington, The Celtic Surrealist' opens at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin | See: http://www.imma.ie
"The first major retrospective of Leonora Carrington’s work in Ireland, this iconic exhibition Leonora Carrington – The Celtic Surrealist is a timely rediscovery of this Surrealist painter and her role in the Surrealist art movement.
Carrington is known for her figurative dreamscapes filled with extraordinary and complex narratives informed by her rich interest in mythology, alchemy, fairy tales and the occult"
Wolfe von Lenkiewicz - Man Proposes God Disposes, 2013 Oil on canvas, 240 x 140 cm
In Man Proposes God Disposes Lenkiewicz conflates Edwin Henry Landseer’s eponymous painting of 1864 with an icescape from Frederic Church’s The Icebergs (1861), with the addition of a corpse from Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa. Church’s original painting is devoid of all living beings and instead evokes the glories of the pristine environment as God’s temple.
Landseer’s work made just two years later, presents the grimly materialistic potential for equating man and beast. By referencing this nineteenth century shift in notions of the sublime, Lenkiewicz crafts a non-linear history, and by doing so reconfigures the normal rules of narrative structure.
Read interview with the artist on 1833 Magazine ➜
FROM THE EXHIBITION:
WOLFE VON LENKIEWICZ THE RAFT OF THE MEDUSA
13 SEPTEMBER – 20 OCTOBER 2013
All Visual Arts 2 Omega Place London N1 9DR
Frederic Edwin Church, The Icebergs, 1861
Frozen Sublimity, Louring Sky
"Some pictures tell stories. All pictures have stories behind them. Frederic Edwin Church's monumental "The Icebergs," at the Dallas Museum of Art, both has a story and tells one, albeit obliquely."
Full Article: http://on.wsj.com/15Vp8Y8
Edwin Henry Landseer - Man Proposes God Disposes, 1864, Oil on canvas
"In his late 30s Landseer suffered what is now believed to be a substantial nervous breakdown, and for the rest of his life was troubled by recurring bouts of melancholy, hypochondria, and depression, often aggravated by alcohol and drug use. In the last few years of his life Landseer's mental stability was problematic, and at the request of his family he was declared insane in July 1872"
Caspar David Friedrich - The Sea of Ice (Das Eismeer), 1823–1824
Also called The Wreck of Hope, Oil on canvas, Collection: Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg
Frederic Edwin Church - The Iceberg, 1891, Carnegie Museum of Art - Pittsburgh http://bit.ly/17d9JTk
Théodore Géricault - Head of a Drowned Man, c.1819 oil on canvas and paper, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Dorothea Tanning - Chiens de Cythère (Dogs of Cythera), 1963, oil on canvas, 77 1/2 x 117 in
© The Dorothea Tanning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Wolfe Von Lenkiewicz in San Lorenzo, Rome working on the upcoming exhibition 'The Raft of the Medusa', Opening 12 Sept at All Visual Arts, London
See : www.allvisualarts.org
WOLFE VON LENKIEWICZ presents THE RAFT OF THE MEDUSA
13 September - 20 October 2013
Opening: 12 September 2013, 7 - 10 pm
ALL VISUAL ARTS 2 Omega Place London N1 9DR
View Press Release ➜ http://bit.ly/13ZeXSk
Shipwreck, Self-preservation and the Sublime
"The passions which belong to self-preservation, turn on pain and danger; they are simply painful when their causes immediately affect us; they are delightful when we have an idea of pain and danger, without being actually in such circumstances; this delight I have not called pleasure, because it turns on pain, and because it is different enough from any idea of positive pleasure. Whatever excites this delight, I call sublime. The passions belonging to self-preservation are the strongest of all the passions."
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Above: Théodore Géricault - The Raft of Medusa (Le Radeau de la Méduse ), 1818-19, oil on canvas, 491 × 716 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Théodore Géricault - Figural study for the 'Raft of the Medusa', 1818
charcoal on paper, 289 x 205 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Théodore Géricault - Dismembered heads (study for The Raft of Medusa) , 1818
Théodore Géricault - Study of a Model, about 1818 - 1819 Collection: J. Paul Getty Museum
Théodore Géricault - Head of a Guillotined Man, 1818/19
Oil on panel, Collection: Art Institute of Chicago