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Maciejowski MarcinOne of the most valued Polish creators of the middle generation, a painter, graphic artist, creator of cartoons and press illustrations, a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. From 1996 – 2001 he co-created the famous Ładnie group (together with Wilhelm Sasnal, Rafał Bujnowski, Marek Firek, Józef Tomczyk “Kurosawa”). Together with Rafał Bujnowski he edited an art magazine Słynne Pismo we Wtorek. As part of the Galeria Zewnętrzna AMS actions he created the Jak tu teraz żyć work presented on street billboards. He is an attentive observes and chronicler of everyday life. His figurative work is a record of everyday situations, banal genre scenes, pop-culture images, performances by TV stars. His sources are photographs from daily papers, colour magazines, TV images. Thanks to their photographic convention they are not only a record of Polish mores, but also show the world created by the mass media. The characteristic painting style developed by the artist is characterised by simplicity, use of clear outlines, brevity and narrowing of the used range of colours. He has presented his works at numerous individual and group exhibitions. In 2010 he had a big monographic exhibition at the National Museum in Krakow. His works can be found both in Polish, as well as foreign collections. Currently, he is connected with the Meyer Kainer gallery (Vienna), Wilkinson Gallery (London), Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (Paris/Salzburg). |
(R)evolution: The nation wants Marcin Maciejowski’s project referring to Pomarańczowa Alternatywa is a painting created by the artist directly on a billboard in the city space. The artist used a method he himself developed – he combined fragments of sentences from daily newspapers, which he complemented with a drawing with a dark outline. Just like it was in the actions of Pomarańczowa Alternatywa, there were two forces – one is the nation and the other – the government. A passage expressing modern needs of Poles was sprayed between the words The nation wants and the authorities agree to.  (R)evolution project curators: Katarzyna Jagodzińska, Natalia Żak (Międzynarodowe Centrum Kultury) and Marcin Gołębiewski (Fundacja Wschód Sztuki) The work was part of the (R)evolution project that accompanied the Happening against Communist by the Orange Alternative exhibition presented in the International Cultural Centre Gallery (Rynek Główny 25) from the 19th of June to the 2nd of October 2011. Pictures: Weronika Szmuc |
16/06/2011 – 31/07/2011 |
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