Leon
Tarasewicz
“New Work”
February 12, 2004 – March 11, 2004
Reception, February 12, 6 - 8 pm
Leon Tarasewicz and his Magic Surfaces
by Vitaly Patzukov
The art of Leon Tarasewicz belongs to the movement known as
new sensuality. His imagery resurrects the living ties between
art and man’s existence, his everyday life, by transforming
it into metaphors representing the earth’s surface.
The artist builds artistic bridges where culture and history
meet, where the sky and the earth reach a unity as mutually
reflected images. Leon Tarasewicz turns to the tradition of
the geometry of Malevich’s “Suprematist horizons”
and endows his compositions with earthly heaviness and continuity.
He depicts his world with scrupulous attention to detail, indicating
its multi-layered structure and its roots in the soil, its visual
archaism, resembling some woven fabrics covering our planet.
Tarasewicz’s artistic system is based on the projection
of the heavenly spaces on the horizontal earthly limits, as
some invisible steps formed by many vertical worlds, existing
in the spaces of the earthly roads and human destinies. They
shimmer with geological inclusions, fragments of the meteorites
that had once fallen to the earth; they conceal deep-lying plasma
structures and volcanic formations. Their inner life reveals
itself with energetic outbreaks, the varied reliefs made of
depressions and plateaus so that the tactile state of the composition
becomes an aesthetic phenomenon. The world of Tarasewicz’s
art comes into view unexpectedly as if you are observing it
from space, as an illumination, as an instantly created reality,
carrying both the spiritual and material.
This is Leon Tarasewicz’s second exhibition at the gallery.
Tarasewicz represented Poland at the 2001 Venice Biennale.
For more information contact the Gary Tatintsian Gallery
525 West 25th Street, New York, NY 10011
Tel: 212 633 0110 e-mail:
info@tatintsian.com
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Untitled,
2004
Acrylic on canvas
72.5 x 154.5 inches |
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Untitled,
2003
Structure acrylic and acrylicon wood panel
75 x 75 inches |
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Untitled,
2001
Oil on canvas
74 x 51 inches |
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Untitled,
2001
Oil on canvas
74 x 51 inches |
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Untitled,
2001
Oil on canvas
74 x 51 inches |
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