Michał Lenartowicz - Black&White Obsession - XXL

“Black&White Obsession” by Michał Lenartowicz is a powerful monochrome abstract painting that explores intensity, contrast, and the raw energy of gesture stripped of color.

Working exclusively in black, white, and nuanced grays, Lenartowicz builds a composition driven by movement and confrontation. Thick, sweeping strokes collide with splashes, scratches, and drips, creating a dense visual field that feels both chaotic and deliberate. The absence of color sharpens every decision: each mark reads as a statement, each contrast as tension.

The painting’s surface reveals a highly physical process. Layers of paint overlap, smear, and fracture, suggesting repeated actions—application, erasure, and reassertion. Diagonal forces cut across the canvas, while darker masses anchor the composition, giving the eye moments of rest amid the turbulence. The white areas are not passive backgrounds; they push back against the black, generating a constant visual struggle.

On a large scale, Black&White Obsession becomes immersive and confrontational. It pulls the viewer into a space where emotion is conveyed not through symbolism, but through rhythm, pressure, and speed. Associations may arise—conflict, motion, inner turmoil, or even calligraphic writing—but the work resists a single reading, remaining open and visceral.

Ultimately, the painting can be seen as a meditation on duality and focus: presence and absence, control and impulse, silence and impact. By limiting his palette, Lenartowicz intensifies expression, demonstrating how obsession with reduction can lead to heightened emotional force and clarity within abstraction.
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Overall size: 160x110cm

Size after stretcher: 150x100cm

The painting is signed on the back of the canvas.

Photos of the painting with the frame are for reference only.

Due to the size of the painting, the canvas will be shipped rolled up.