Marek Piasecki. A Friday Person

Curatorship: Valérie Fougeirol & Rafał Lewandowski

Marek Piasecki was born on a Saturday, 23 February 1935.

However, one of his most intriguing works, noted by Régis Durand, is entitled A Friday Person. Can this shift of date serve to understand the artist's gesture — or rather his own intimate trace — as a photographer and alchemist painter with surrealist roots?

Marek Piasecki was a member of the Second Krakow Group, on the invitation of Tadeusz Kantor; he exhibited his miniatures with the Phases Group (Krzysztofory Gallery, Krakow, 1959), but he felt truly at home in his hermetic studio with black-insulated windows, working at night, where he created his strange abstract photograms, dolls, and miniatures, as so many photographic recordings of his own moods.

Occasionally, he also photographed for the press. Do these emotional movements going from interior to exterior and vice versa reveal his work, full of constellations, within a singular exhibition?

This question, among others, will be at the heart of the exhibition of selected works by the artist during the period 1957-1967, (before his definitive departure for Sweden), at the galerie Le Minotaure in Paris.

This exhibition is part of the Photography in Art Galleries trail, organized by the Comité Professionnel des Galeries d'Art.