Lento sfumato 10 2019

Lech Jankowski's "Lento sfumato 10," is a drawing that evokes a dreamlike state through its delicate graphite rendering. The composition centers on architectural fragments – stairs, a door – floating within a softly blurred, indeterminate space. This elicits a feeling of disorientation. Jankowski's meticulous sfumato technique, characterized by subtle gradations of tone, dematerializes the forms. The blurred edges dissolve the solidity of the architectural elements, challenging our perception of space. The stairs, abruptly cut off, lead nowhere. This suggests a rupture in spatial continuity, reminiscent of surrealist aesthetics. The door below, sketchily rendered with the words "Porta inferi", implying 'the gates of hell', adds a layer of psychological depth to the drawing. The artist blurs the boundary between the real and the imagined. In "Lento sfumato 10," Jankowski uses the formal qualities of line, tone, and composition to destabilize our sense of place. This transforms the drawing into a meditation on the instability of perception and the subjective nature of reality.