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18/05/2004 12:59

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Lukasz Banach

Lukasz Banach was born on August 23rd 1980 in Bochnia. His drawings which were described by him as the ones â€œwith full rightsâ€ started to appear between 1996 and 1998. At the beginning his works were marked with strong expressionism (violence) and deformations, sometimes even hard to explain in the context of the shown scene.

While working on his drawings, he also started to create images made completely by means of digital techniques (computer graphics) in which similar strong expressionism was shown but in time, lighter and more explicable deformations became present. In 1999 the young artist got acquainted with the works of Zdzislaw Beksinski and later with Beksinski himself, with whom he launched a constant correspondence with still to this day. In the middle of 1999 he started to move his ideas into larger formats; the works started to be more spacious and gained more of a realistic way of lighting. These works of black humour and grotesque were gradually converting into dark slides of the young creatorâ€™s imagination, at that time too much inundated with Beksinskiâ€™s works. At the turn of 1999 the leap from drawing to oil painting was made in a modest manner.

Over the next years having resigned from any form of further education including resigning from taking the final exams in high school (â€œI had more important things on my mindâ€), he devoted most of his time to improving his painting technique. Due to the fact that his works existed on the Internet, proposals of buying them appeared at first from USA and Australia and then other countries as well. In the middle of the year 2001 most of the works from this period were destroyed by the author himself because he claimed that it was an evident example of poisoning his imagination by staring at albums with Beksinskiâ€™s works for too long. It did not prevent however, from sustaining the correspondence and visiting his Warsaw studio.

The second half of 2001 and the beginning of 2002 is the period of practically oil paintings only, slowly going away from the themes of Beksinskiâ€™s works. In comparison to the destroyed works, they are less aggressive in context and more precise in their form. In the year 2002 a specific return to grotesque and black humour is visible, similar to the first works â€œwith full rightsâ€ which were mentioned, but in more perfect form trained on the paintings from â€“ as the author himself describes â€“ â€œBeksinski periodâ€.

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Comments (25 posted):

Ray Caesar on 19/05/2004 13:29

I like your work very much. The lighting and texture are wonderful and I love the depth of strange worlds you are exploring. amazing work Lukasz.

Jewel Nadine on 19/05/2004 16:06

Wow...just unbelievable..I love it!

macKenzie on 19/05/2004 18:12

Your work is very "sinewy" and very haunting. Your personal style sticks in the viewers mind.

Jonah madison on 20/05/2004 15:23

i just wanted to say how much i liked your work and that you are doing a wonderful job and i hope to see more some time

Karan Reshad on 21/05/2004 02:32

Dear Artist!
Your works are very amazing.I don't know why you are there.where? I don't know .Whish you were in heaven.(I mean all The artists and thinkers) is there would be any. The subject of your works are very pure,I think,and amazing for me.
Thasnk

Holly on 04/06/2004 03:58

Its really beautiful Lukasz. Your pieces make my heart skip a beat.

owen on 05/06/2004 01:02

i especially like the cars in the snow.

and i like how nothing has hair

Shelley/immortal on 09/06/2004 15:37

Once when pondering what art is all about I was told that art is, like spoken word, a method of comunication. After much refinment I have come to realize the purpose of art is to cause the viewer to react. Which then makes anything called art interesting to view. Try to stay unforgettable, Artist (with a capital A)

L. Christ on 20/06/2004 00:21

I mostly notice the upward cycles of motion in images 54 and 49. Even while one is an active picture and the other is not, you are able to cause eye movement for both.

oj simpson on 26/07/2004 14:28

Was painting #49 inspired by that power liftin' son a bitch whose ass exploded in a squating competition?