Dimensions: 185 x 135 cm (dimensions of each work)
each part of the diptych signed, dated and described on the stretcher on the reverse: 'SŁAWOMIR LEWCZUK | FROM THE SERIES "SYMPTOMS" - "GUILDHOUSE I" 2010 | OIL - PŁ. 185 x 260 CM' next to the artist's stamp with the number 1/23
Exhibited
"Slawomir Lewczuk. Discipline of Record. Painting", Wilson Shaft Gallery, Katowice, 21.01-20.03.2011
Slawomir Lewczuk. Painting, Exhibition NCK Center Gallery, Krakow, February 2012.
"Slawomir Lewczuk. Record Discipline 4", BWA Galeria Sanocka, Sanok, March 2012
"Architect next to architecture," SARP Gallery, Krakow, May 2012
"Slawomir Lewczuk. Symptoms," Artists' House Gallery 3, Warsaw, July 2012
"Slawomir Lewczuk. Discipline of Record. Painting", Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski Art Exhibition Office, January 2013
"Slawomir Lewczuk. The Other Side. Painting," Museum of Opole Silesia, Opole, 2016
"Slawomir Lewczuk. The Other Side," ZPAP OK, Pryzmat Gallery, Krakow, 2018; Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych Rzeszów, August 2019.
"Slawomir Lewczuk. The Discipline of Recording," Pryzmat Gallery, Krakow, December 2019
Literature
Slawomir Lewczuk. Discipline of Record 4, BWA Galeria Sanocka, Sanok, 2012 (il. in the brochure with the artist's biography).
Slawomir Lewczuk. Discipline of Record. Painting, Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski 2013, p. 21 (il.).
Slawomir Lewczuk, Discipline of Recording, exhibition catalog, ZPAP OK, Pryzmat Gallery, Krakow 2019, pp. 106-107 (il.).
Slawomir Lewczuk,The Other Side, Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych Rzeszów 2019 (il. in the brochure with the artist's biogram)
Biography
Lewczuk Slawomir (1938-2020). Artist, graphic designer, draughtsman, stage designer, was born in Cherkasy in Volhynia. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Cracow University of Technology and, in 1965, from painting at the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts, in the studio of Emil Krcha. He was associated with the Krakow art community, but functioned on its fringes. The protagonists of his works were invariably people captured in various constellations. Their silhouettes are stripped of color - mostly gray, always nameless, often faceless, mutilated or deformed. They often have accentuated ears, noses, mouths, tongues - organs through which contacts in the world take place. For what the artist had in mind first and foremost was the interpersonal space - the man in his paintings always appears in relation to another man/people/environment. In these relationships he loses his individuality - he becomes a "gray mass", "kneaded" in the fashion of others. His paintings are disciplined, orderly, governed by strict rigor; in many of them the content is enclosed in a simple, laconic sign. The surprising contexts in which the figures in Levchuk's paintings appear bring to mind associations with surrealism, but it is difficult to suspect him of succumbing to the mechanisms of automatic recording. Indeed, these contexts were deeply thought out, and the message of his works was very clear.
Slawomir Lewczuk received the 2019 Witold Wojtkiewicz Award organized by the Cracow District of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers and awarded for the best exhibition of painting, drawing or graphic art held in Cracow during its consecutive annual edition.
