Leon Tarasewicz is one of the most intriguing contemporary painters in Poland. He was born in 1957 in Walily in the Podlachia region. Tarasewicz is an inventive artist who constantly explores new aspects of the old and seemingly predictable discipline of painting.

He studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts under Tadeusz Dominik, graduating in 1984. He has run a painting workshop at his alma mater since 1996.?? He was noticed immediately after leaving the academy, as his paintings stood out from the “new expression” style which prevailed among his contemporaries. He was already then convinced that “a canvas [...] should always defend itself with painting and painting alone” and not any with added meaning or artistically strange cod...