Wolfe von Lenkiewicz

Wolfe von Lenkiewicz

Wolfe von Lenkiewicz's chief artistic concern is the appropriation of language and mythology. He boldly experiments with hybrid visual combinations that straddle the murky borders of the shocking and offensive. His art historical intervention demonstrate our own complacency  of art towards famous images, namely those highly learnt visual compositions of art history. Our knowledge of them has become so much second nature that we take them for granted. It is not until they are disturbed that we realise how much confidence we place in them.

Of course this is nothing new. The history of art can be understood as compromising of changes from one mode of visual representation to another. The difference is the contemporaneity  and extremity of Lenkiewicz's subject matter. 9/11  becomes a stage for giant butterflies, Damien's Hirst's spot painting s merge with the designs of William Morris, and Adam and Eve are expelled from a field of oil dereks. The works demonstrates that no image is sacred and thus the artist is free to disseminate subject matter as they see fit. What is important is distinguishing when such combinations "work".Lenkiewicz has been described as an unbound geneticist-turned-artist, a contemporary iconoclast; allusions he no doubt relishes.

Solo Exhibitions

2010 Victory Over the Sum Triumph Gallery Moscow
2009 The Descent of Man 1 Melton Street London
2007 Nu-Trinity Simon Dickinson London
2007 Mutagenesis Mimmo Scognamiglio Contemporary Art Naples
2007 Mutagenesis Paradise Row London
2007 Emblematic Psychosis Ingalls & Associates Miami
2001 The Park T1+2 Artspace London
2000 Hangman T1+2 Artspace London

 

Group Exhibitions

2009 The Age of the Marvellous All Visual Arts London
2009 The Embassy 20 Hoxton Square Projects London
2007 Avatar of Sacred Discontent T1+2 Artspace London
2007 Avatar of Sacred Discontent Port Eliot Litfest St Germans
2006 End of Civilization Port Eliot Castle St Germans
2006 Kristy Stubbs Gallery Great Eastern Hotel London
2005 Kunstverein Bregenz Go-Between  
2005 WP.S.1 MOMA radio Venice Biennale  
2005 screening of 'Get Newton' and Otto Muehl film interview Redux gallery  
2005 Screening of 'The Park Channel 5 TV  
2005 Arts council commission to build sculpture Lusus Naturae  
2005 The Horse Hospital screening of 'Desum'  
2004 Literary Festival Film Tent screening of 'Desum' Port Elliot
2004 Redux Gallery screening of 'Desum'  
2004 ICA screening of 'Desum' London
2004 Tank TV ICA media room exhibition screening of 'Scopophobia' London
2004 talk at ICA Interview by Laura Provoust London
2003 Worlds First Congress of Fork Lift Trucks Atlantis Gallery London
2002 Worlds First Congress of Fork Lift Trucks Atlantis Gallery London
2002 100,000 Newspapers: Gustav Metzger, Stewart Home, Wolfe Lenkiewicz T1+2 Artspace London
1999 The Constant of Variation T1+2 Artspace London

 

Listen to Wolfe Lenkiewicz on BBC World service on the Forum:

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0064mzp/The_Forum_14_02_2010/