Slawomir Elsner
Slawomir Elsner
| Contact | Uta Grosenick |
|---|---|
| Year | 2021 |
| Edition | 40 |
| Technique | iPad drawing printed on Hahnemühle fine art paper |
| Image Size | sheet 29,7 x 21 cm / image 24 x 19 cm |
| Price | € 580 (incl. 19% VAT) |
| Details | signed and numbered |
Slawomir Elsner (b. Wodzisław Śląski, Poland, 1976; lives and works in Berlin) made a name for himself with naturalistic paintings, but it was his colored-pencil drawings and watercolors that made him famous. He has been celebrated, in particular, for his crayon adaptations of legendary portraits and paintings from the history of art. Executed with virtuoso skill, the colorful works on paper seem blurry but are actually drawn in crisply accurate lines.
The book Dissonance—Platform Germany showcases the art of the eighty-one most important painters working in Germany in the past two decades. Some of them have graciously agreed to allow DCV to release limited editions of their works.
Books on Slawomir Elsner
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Dissonance
Platform Germany65€ Add to cartA Changed Vision—New Painting from Germany
Post-reunification Germany has emerged as an important forum for international painting. The generation of artists born in the 1970s and 1980s eschew alignment with collective tendencies and resist clearly definable influences. Meanwhile, their art has registered the cultural and sociological dislocations and divergences since the fall of the Iron Curtain with seismographic precision.
The editors of Dissonance – Platform Germany present eighty-one of the most significant painters living and working in Germany in the past two decades. They have the courage of strong opinions, turn the spotlight on unsuspected treasures, and tease out the unexpected value in aesthetically thrilling achievements of programmatic pluralism. A vital survey of one of the most exciting chapters in the more recent history of art in Germany.
Some of the presented artists have graciously agreed to allow DCV to release limited editions of their works, which you can find here.
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Slawomir Elsner
Precision and Chance38€ Add to cartComplex Processes of Abstraction
International audiences know Sławomir Elsner (b. Wodzisław Śląski, Poland, 1976; lives and works in Berlin) for his naturalistic paintings and abstract watercolors, but it was his brilliantly executed colorful drawings that made him famous. The technique of his work in crayons is as formidable as it is singular and underlies his many adaptations of legendary works from the history of painting that seem blurry but are actually drawn in accurate lines.
More generally, Elsner’s art probes the effect of different media and the stories they tell. He interrogates the images they transport and challenges the consumers to subject their own visual experiences to a similar critical review. Do pictures represent reality or distort it? That is the question that guides his inquiries.
Elsner works almost exclusively in series. What makes this book special is that it includes an index in which eleven of these bodies of work are reproduced in their entirety. The Old Masters series alone comprises 143 works made in the years after 2014. It is complemented by the series Windows on the World (2008–2010), Feuerwerk- und Luftabwehr (2004), Unsere Sonnen (2004–2005), the watercolors of Tagstücke and Nachtstücke (2014–2021), and others.
Many of the works frame accidents, disasters, wars, nuclear tests, or other horrible events. By harnessing the means of art to detach their depiction from a documentary setting, Sławomir Elsner achieves an unrivaled degree of aestheticization; his works are fascinating at first glance, only to fill the beholder with a creeping dread.
