acrylic, canvas, 50 x 50 cm signed, dated and described on the reverse: L. Tarasewicz 2019/Acrylic on canvas/50X50
provenance: private collection, Warsaw
Leon Tarasewicz (born 1957) lives and works in his home village of Waliły in the Bialystok region. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He received his diploma in 1984 in the studio of Prof. Tadeusz Dominik. He 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 the works of recent years, he breaks the formal limitations of painting to the 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 was created on walls, floors or ceilings."
He is one of the few (if not the only) contemporary Polish painters with worldwide resonance and recognition.
