To avoid disappointment, please note that the title is that of the exhibition

The Lenkiewicz Foundation has distributed this announcement in its latest Newsletter:

 
ROYAL WEST OF ENGLAND ACADEMY

'Still Lives' – Robert Lenkiewicz
17 April — 31 May 2011


"This will be the most comprehensive exhibition of Robert Lenkiewicz's work since his premature death at the age of 60 in 2002. Lenkiewicz famously chose the outsider as the subject for his art: the vagrants and street alcoholics who dossed at his studios, families with mentally handicapped children, the elderly, the dying – human beings isolated from one another by their circumstances and from themselves by their preoccupations.'You're born alone and you die alone,' he said and the problem was to deal with the isolation of simply being alive. Lenkiewicz found one solution – a richly creative life conducted with panache – and left behind a legacy which will appeal to anyone with an interest in the conundrum of existence. In his obituary of Lenkiewicz, art critic David Lee remarked that 'Lenkiewicz was one of few serious painters of contemporary history.'"

For further information and to download the RWA events magazine, please visit: http://www.rwa.org.uk/curpro.htm

A schedule of educational events surrounding the exhibition – including gallery talks, lectures and discussions – will be announced early in the new year on the RWA web site and on www.lenkiewiczfoundation.org

Information about Private Views and other Friends benefits will be announced in the next newsletter, which will be out shortly.


Newsletter contents

WANTED! Rembrandt | Van Gogh | Courbet
Help the Foundation locate self-portraits of Robert with his artistic heroes

A film-maker's perspective on Robert Lenkiewicz
by Jeremy Elman, commissioned by TLF to produce a film for the RWA show

PLUS, new images from the archive, charity news, forthcoming events and exhibitions, Private Views and more...
 

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