Unreal Gallery, 10 Matejki St., Rzeszow
Organizer: Rzeszow Photographic Association
Opening on Friday, July 29 at 18:00, exhibition until September 31, 2022
Although the vacation season is in full swing, RSF invites you, along with guest author Daniel Mroz, to the next opening at Unreal Gallery.
Author Born in Janow Lubelski, he is a photographer, art animator, and musician by passion. He graduated from Education and Artistic Animation at the Swietokrzyska Academy in Kielce and Photography at the Artistic Faculty of UMCS in Lublin. He is a teacher and lecturer of photography. He cooperates with "Forum" Polish Agency of Photographers. He was a finalist in the Grand Press Photo 2015 in the "Everyday Life" category.
His most important individual exhibitions were presented at the Pulawy Art Gallery, the Regional Museum in Janow Lubelski, the Museum Gallery - the Museum of Photography in Janow Lubelski, the Gallery of the Polish Radio Lublin, the Zamosc House of Culture, the Art Gallery "New Vegetable" Gdansk, the Museum of Nature and Technology in Starachowice, the Kazimierski Center for Culture Promotion and Tourism in Kazimierz Dolny.
He participated in group exhibitions: Grand Press Photo, FotoArtFestival - Foto Open - Bielsko Biala, at Pulawy Art Gallery.
The author wrote this about his exhibition:
The selected works are a collection of photographs created over a period of several years, to which I repeatedly returned in an effort to improve them. Returns to photo sessions were characterized by the desire for further experiments with the body, space, structure and light. All the works presented are the result of long hours spent in the studio - the visual side of the photographs was not created as a result of graphic alterations, but with the help of appropriate photographic exposure techniques. The workshop I used during the shooting is not only digital technique, but also analogue technique on medium format material.
The presented works are composed on the basis of contrasts: black and white, nude and abstract, and finally: gentleness and aggression. The choice of austere monochrome photography forces the viewer to move away from the classically understood aesthetics of nude photography and the general trend of over-aestheticizing photography.
The juxtaposition of the delicate female body and the often aggressive abstract forms causes a kind of dissonance, as a pessimistic metaphor for the modern world, ruthless to the weak, hypersensitive or, for various reasons, vulnerable to persecution.
The space and structure that was created in the photographs is a vent of certain emotions, emotions that piled up and accumulated in my head being an active participant and observer of socio-cultural life, emotions that are often turbulent and often contradictory even dualistic.
The works presented are personal even therapeutic photography, clearing my mind.
