81 - Stanislas SLAWINSKI (Kraków, 1956)

Stanislas SLAWINSKI (Kraków, 1956) The Ruin of the Two Rivers Oil on hardboard Signed and dated 96 in the lower right corner H_32 cm; W_50 cm Provenance: The artist’s studio Then passed down to the current owner through inheritance 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.