THE HOUSE OF THE NOBLEMAN CURATED BY WOLFE VON LENKIEWICZ & VICTORIA GOLEMBIOVSKAYA PRESS CLIPPING (INTERNET) THE HOUSE OF THE NOBLE MAN CURATED BY WOLFE VON LENKIEWICZ AND VICTORIA GOLEMBIOVSKAYA Boswall House, 2 Cornwall Terrace 13th - 20th, October 2010 PRESS CLIPPING INTERNET 1 THE HOUSE OF THE NOBLEMAN CURATED BY WOLFE VON LENKIEWICZ & VICTORIA GOLEMBIOVSKAYA PRESS CLIPPING (INTERNET) http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/8775/1/the-house-of-the-nobleman Arts & Culture The House Of The Nobleman Old Masters are hung in the company of some of the most notorious contemporary artists on the block in a show opposite Frieze Art Fair Text by John-Paul Pryor For what is a man profited, if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul? Perhaps this is one question that could be asked of any billionaire art collector. In The House of The Nobleman, artist Wolfe von Lenkiewicz examines our relationship to art and the role of the supposedly worldly or noble collector from a nonjudgemental critical distance, and exhibits art both old and new (from Manet and Cézanne to The Chapmans and Damien Hirst) in a show that promises to prove contentious. Here, Lenkiewicz’s own “resequenced” Picassos will be exhibited against their original counterparts, effectively folding art history in upon itself to create an entirely new kind of dialogue. Dazed Digital went down to his studio to talk nobility, history and the reasons why a lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost. Dazed Digital: What is the concept that informs The House Of The Nobleman? Wolfe von Lenkiewicz: When I started to plan the exhibition with the co-curator Victoria Golembiovskaya (by whom I was fascinated because she was instrumental in manoeuvring a submarine in the grand canal in Venice), I began to think about the notion of quality in the 21st century as opposed to the set of values pursued by Marsilio Ficino. The dislocation and decertification of a stable position in the world, which was formal