PhotoSaintGermain-Marek Piasecki, A Friday Person

Marek Piasecki, A Friday Person

Curated by: Valérie Fougeirol & Rafał Lewandowski

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

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

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

Occasionally, he also took photographs for the press. Do these emotional movements moving from inside to outside 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 from the period 1957-1967, (before his permanent departure for Sweden), at the Galerie Le Minotaure in Paris.

This exhibition takes place within the framework of the PhotoSaintGermain festival. Organized in the heart of Paris, in the iconic Saint‐Germain‐des‐Prés neighborhood, PhotoSaintGermain is an annual festival dedicated to promoting photographic creation.

PhotoSaintGermain offers a free and freely accessible exhibition tour across a selection of museums, cultural centers, galleries, and bookstores on the Left Bank. This tour highlights a sharp and eclectic program designed by associated galleries, as well as several original exhibitions and novel projects imagined and produced by the festival.

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

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