Dimensions: 199 x 140 cm
signed and dated on the reverse: 'ŁUKASZ | KOROLKIEWICZ | 1974'
Origin:
Libra Auction House, 2019
Literature
New Generation and Classics of Modernity from the Collection of Wojciech Fibak, exhibition catalog, Center for Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, ed. Krzysztof Stanisławski, Anna Kompanowska, Toruń 2024, p. 185 (ill.)
Biography
Łukasz Korolkiewicz is the most important creator of hyperrealist painting in Poland. His works are accurate reproductions of images recorded on photographic film, with a full spectrum of light refractions, so essential for the evoked medium. In his compositions, the artist tries to reproduce the surrounding reality as closely as possible. For many, his paintings are not only proof of his virtuosity of craftsmanship and perfect mastery of the painting technique, but also a record of the everyday life of the artistic and queer community of the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1970s, together with Andrzej Bielawski and Ewa Kuryluk, he formed the Śmietanka group, and was also involved in the "O poprawę" art movement. He received many awards including the Independent Culture Committee Award and the Jan Cybis Award (1991). In 2002, he had a retrospective exhibition at the Zachęta Gallery. His paintings, painted in the manner of photorealism, are characterized by a certain mysteriousness and ephemerality. Constantly recurring themes are numerous self-portraits in interiors or gardens, scenes from the daily life of his own acquaintances and depressing Prague backyards.
