‘…I want my paintings to look as if a human being rubbed against them,
[…] leaving a trace of [its] presence and the memory of past events just like a snail leaves slime behind ‘.
Francis Bacon
LESZEK STRZEMIECKI
Born in 1962 in Lublin. Studied at the Institute of Artistic Education of UMCS, Lublin. Diploma in painting with Prof. Marian Stelmasik. Lives and works in Lublin. Strzemienicki is an easel painter, but also deals with decorative wall painting, stage design and applied arts. He cooperates as a stage designer with Lublin Dance Theatre and Contemporary Dance Group of Lublin University of Technology.
Individual exhibitions and actions :
2003 – 2011 Commercial works– decorative wall painting. Poland.
2002 Design and execution of the Polish Contemporary Dance Association stall, Tannz Messe . Essen, Germany.
2002 Stage design for the play ‘Acrobats, flowers and the moon between’ Lublin Dance Theatre and Contemporary Dance Group of Lublin University of Technology.
2001 Set design for ‘The Optical Treaty’ of Lublin Dance Theatre
2000 Set design for ‘DC ……’ performance by Contemporary Dance Group of Lublin University of Technology.
1999 Exhibition of design furniture; Poznań International Fair.
1996 Stage design for Charity concert for children with blood diseases, Lublin
1990 -1992 Commercial works– decorative wall painting. Antwerp, Belgium
1989 Exhibition of paintings; ODK gallery, Lublin.
Collective exhibitions and actions :
1999 Exhibition of applied arts objects ‘Ultramaryna’ – Lublin
1988 Grupa Czterech. ‘Requiem aeternam’ action inspired by Krzysztof Penderecki’s music under the same title and ‘Lightness and Darkness’ – Lublin
1988 Grupa Czterech. ‘Extra Inter Sza…Blues’ fine arts action ‘- Lublin