Dimensions: 250 x 45 x 45 cm
Origin
private collection, Poland
Biography
Graduate of Antoni Kenar State High School of Fine Arts in Zakopane. From 1983 to 1990 studied at the Faculty of Pedagogy and Plastic Arts of the Branch of the Silesian University in Cieszyn. He lives and works in Cracow. His work was shaped by his older colleagues and friends - Andrzej Szewczyk and Marek Chlanda. Lutyinski, as one of the few artists of the younger generation, gives evidence of his creative experience and fascination with the art of Tadeusz Kantor, as well as the abstract painting of Kazimir Malevich. Lutyensky practices a multifaceted oeuvre of painting, spatial installations and performance. He is the violin-playing leader of the band Core (currently consisting of: Piotr and Fryderyk Lutynski, Marek Kozica, Ewa Wiosna Libera, Zbigniew Libera and Adam Rzepecki), which performs improvised music on stage (including to poetic works), as well as the animator of the KR736EJ project - a vintage art installation bus, which is a traveling outdoor stage, kitchen and accommodation for the band and accompanying guests . In the KR736EJ project, the band collaborated with Ryszard Krynicki and Marcin Świetlicki, among others, as well as with many visual artists and musicians. Lutynski's work in many respects reveals the qualities customarily associated with Kraków's artistic community. These are expressed in the absolutization (after Tadeusz Kantor) of the "poor object" in art, a certain bohemian trait (as, for example, in the design of the wandering studio-a place for artists to meet and work), and finally in Lutyoski's conscious reference in his exhibition arrangements to the stuffy bourgeois salon with its worn carpets, old furniture, or hunting trophies. Lutyensky's works can be abstract paintings, theatrical installations or surrealistic montages, according to Lautréamont's saying that art is the meeting on the dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella. However, what particularly distinguishes the artist is his attitude to nature and culture - establishing in his work a special relationship between the world of man (art) and non-human beings. In his exhibitions, Lutyensky confronted live animals with his paintings. Chickens appeared in Potocka Gallery's 1997 exhibition "Luminous Guides" in Cracow, horses in Cracow's Alchemy in the exhibition "Between Horse and Image" (2003). Lutyensky's other projects include "Bird Column" at Bunkier Art Gallery in Cracow (2003), and "Music for Fish" at Foksal Gallery in Warsaw (2005). His works featured significant materials in the context of oil canvases: straw, wood, wax, dried insects, bird eggs. For Lutyensky, the reality of abstract painting and the animal world is permeated with the same universal energy. "Artificiality" of art and "vitality" of life are equally real, and in this thinking the artist is close to many representatives of the constructivist avant-garde from the beginning of the last century. At the same time, Lutyensky appears to be a pioneer of "anthropocene art," so prevalent in the youngest artistic generation, which he has practiced since the early 1990s. The artist has had many solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions. His work to date was summed up by an exhibition at the Bunkier Sztuki Gallery in Krakow in 2020, for which a comprehensive catalog was published.
