Description
Acrylic, personal technique, plywood, 9 x (34 x 34 cm)
Signed on described on the back of the first piece: "L. Tarasewicz 2006 Acrylic. | 113 x 113 | 9 x 34 x 34 | GAP BETWEEN IMAGE ELEMENTS 5 CM. | NO. 1." Each module numbered on the reverse (1-9).
Asking price 83500
Estimate 105000 -110000
◙ droit de suite
Auction 203, 19.06.2021
This painting represents the hallmarks of Leon Tarasewicz's work. Its expression is based on the contrast of patches of pure colors - red and blue with single accents of yellow and green. Echoes of the tradition of colorism are discernible in this work, as well as the artist's clear references to the landscape, which has been his main inspiration from the very beginning of his successful creative path.
Leon TARASEWICZ
b. 1957 Waliły
Lives and works in his native village of Waliły in the Bialystok region. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Diploma in 1984 in the studio of Prof. Tadeusz Dominik. Made his debut at Warsaw's Foksal gallery in 1984. Cooperation with Foksal gallery enabled the artist to present his works to a European audience. Beginning with a solo exhibition at the Galleria del Cavallino in Venice, the interest in the artist's work by art dealers and collectors from Europe and the US continues. As early as 1988, Tarasewicz's works were presented at the Venice Biennale at the Aperto`88 exhibition. He has won many awards, including the "Jan Cybis", "Nowosielski Award". The artist's early paintings resembled landscapes, from which he gradually eliminated "unnecessary" elements, proposing a very personal version of nature. Currently, he is constantly working with galleries: Springer and Winckler Gallerie in Berlin and Nordenhake in Stockholm. In his works of recent years, he breaks the formal limitations of painting to a space spanned by a canvas frame. He often takes the opportunity to go beyond the stretcher frame. He paints the space of walls, columns, floors. As he himself says " ... painting from its dawn in the Neolithic period was created on walls, floors or ceilings."
