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Wolfe von Lenkiewicz, Man with a Pipe, 2015, Oil on canvas, 300 × 200 cm (118.1 x 78.7 in)
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Wolfe von Lenkiewicz, Giants, 2015, Oil on canvas, 300 × 1000 cm (118.1 x 393.7 in)
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Wolfe von Lenkiewicz, Marinetti, 2015, Oil on canvas, 300 x 200 cm (118.1 x 78.7 in)
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Wolfe von Lenkiewicz Pierrot, 2014, Oil on canvas, 184 x 149 cm (72.4 x 58.6 in)
Exhibition
DELIRIOUS PICASSO
12 May 2015 – 17 May 2015
Event times
Daily 10 am - 8 pm
Cost of entry
Free
2 East 63rd Street
Address
- 2 East 63rd Street
- New York
New York - 10065
- United States
House of the Nobleman presents DELIRIOUS PICASSO in collaboration with Mark Sanders Art Consultancy. The exhibition features new paintings by Wolfe von Lenkiewicz alongside works by Pablo Picasso.
About
At the heart of DELIRIOUS PICASSO is British artist Wolfe von Lenkiewicz, with his debut exhibition in New York City. In his latest series of oil paintings, von Lenkiewicz juxtaposes Picasso’s oeuvre with ukiyo-e, a Japanese genre of woodblock prints and paintings, to explore the harmony between Eastern and Western artistic traditions. Synthesizing restraint and grandeur, the artist combines flat perspective with sumptuous colour and use of pattern as exemplified in ukiyo-e. He reinterprets the work of both the 19th-century Japanese painter Kikugawa Eizan and Picasso, taking particular inspiration from the spontaneity and vitality of the latter.
Von Lenkiewicz’s presentation comprises two distinct series of works entitled The Guards of the Void and The Giants. The grand reconfigured paintings combine Picasso motifs with courtesan and samurai figures to form a potent new visual language. This provocative iconoclastic act liberates the borrowed paintings from their cultural mythos, reinvigorating the icons into bold enigmatic prototypes. Von Lenkiewicz’s deft handling of these seemingly disparate aesthetics form an arresting series of paintings that, in dialogue with the works of Picasso, demonstrate the reconcilable nature of Eastern and Western artistic practices.
