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Marek Szczęsny
Gravity

exhibition opened
from November 28th 2008
to January 9th 2009

Now at the Foksal Gallery Marek Szczęsny presents his cycle of paintings entitled Gravitation, which came into being in recent years. The artist's desire is to catch the phenomenon of imaging in his pictures, trying to reach to the very essence of visual cognition. With it, each element gets an unusual importance, building the tension between our eye and the form of a work of art, what isn't closed only within the framework of the pictorial plane. Both the arrangement of individual works in the gallery hall and rooms and the mutual distances between the works, which are determined with the whiteness of the walls, are important. The same concerns the very dimensions of them, which are forcing us to commune with them very closely. The title "gravitation" is making relative the traditional relations between the artist's and the viewer's world. As Jaromir Jedliński wrote in the catalogue, "It is worth making an attempt to reconstruct the sequence of decisions, movements and actions of the painter, which he had to make while constructing his multi-element exhibition with its specific inter-pictorial space. Such reconstructions of the painter's actions seem to be our proper reaction for the images that are presented to us."

Szczęsny's creation is characterised by the consistency of developed actions which are concentrated in an almost classical formula of painting. The artist unusually trusts in the autonomy and future of image, believing that, "This kind of plane will have been always appearing in front of the man, which he can treat only in painting terms."
In his Gravitations we can find also references to the tradition of abstractive painting, which - expressing the creator's emotions in an uncontrolled way - is liberating what's unconscious in him. For, as Marek Szczęsny says, "What's contained in art, I mean that cosmic element, has to be something exceptionally moving, and not only a speculation."

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