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Robert Lenkiewicz 1941-2002
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Description
- Robert Lenkiewicz
- diogene's bed
- two works framed as one, both extensively inscribed
- pencil
- 33.5x101.5cm.; 13x40in.
Catalogue Note
Executed for Project 1.
Edward MacKenzie became known as Diogenes after the philospher who lived in a barrel due to the fact that Lenkiewicz 'found him living in a concrete barrel, a circular container, in the crook of a tree looking down onto Chelson rubbish tip, a precipitous drop, and he had lived in there for nine years' (ibid.p.34). The artist would visit him at his barrel and paint watercolours of him. A photograph of the artist with Diogenes in his barrel was subsequently used as the front cover of one of the Daily Telegraph magazines. When Diogenes died, the artist had his body embalmed as he had always been 'struck by the total presence of the corpse and the total absence of the person, particularly if one knew the person' (ibid.p.37).
Edward MacKenzie became known as Diogenes after the philospher who lived in a barrel due to the fact that Lenkiewicz 'found him living in a concrete barrel, a circular container, in the crook of a tree looking down onto Chelson rubbish tip, a precipitous drop, and he had lived in there for nine years' (ibid.p.34). The artist would visit him at his barrel and paint watercolours of him. A photograph of the artist with Diogenes in his barrel was subsequently used as the front cover of one of the Daily Telegraph magazines. When Diogenes died, the artist had his body embalmed as he had always been 'struck by the total presence of the corpse and the total absence of the person, particularly if one knew the person' (ibid.p.37).