Stanislas SLAWINSKI (Krakow, 1956) - Lot 47

Stanislas SLAWINSKI (Krakow, 1956) The Desert City Oil on cardboard Signed and dated 1997 lower right Slight damage H_50 cm; W_62 cm Provenance: The artist’s studio Then passed by inheritance to the current owner Trained in fine arts in Poland, Stanislas Slawinski, born in Kraków in 1956, devotes himself to the restoration of the facades of medieval monuments in Kraków and Bielsko-Biała, in Silesia. His classically styled work is inspired by his studies of architecture from Poland’s Golden Age and his research into medieval treasures, which he examined during archaeological excavations at Rynek in the Warsaw countryside. His compositions are nourished by a meditation on the Gospels and the great classical works of Polish art. The landscapes take on whimsical forms that reveal Slavic irony and melancholy; themes of the desert and a humanity in spiritual decline are punctuated by allusions to the Book of Revelation.