vernissage: 09.02.2023 / 19.00 / Author's meeting: 10.02.2023 / 18.00 / Exhibition: 09-24.02.2023 / NIEGALERIA ul. Tęczowa 1, Wrocław
Finissage on 23.02.2023 at 7 pm.
The 365+ project is a polyptical work that combines a physical image with an ephemeral time-lapse projection. The composite of these two visual layers creates a monumental mosaic image. It is the resultant photographic recording of time enclosed within a single year compressed into a multi-element work. This recording is made in a space intimate to the author, where the sphere of the sacred and the profane intermingle. The viewer enters it involuntarily and through successive stages of perception becomes a participant. The resulting image is a collection of data that is an accumulation of time accumulated in a single point located in a three-dimensional system. This object, through changing levels of observation and transformation of layers of multiple images, takes on visual forms of spatio-temporal transmission.
Curated by Olena Matoshniuk
Michal Pietrzak, received his doctorate in art from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Graphic Arts and Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, the Higher School of Photography in Jelenia Gora and the Faculty of Architecture at the Wroclaw University of Technology. He has presented his work many times at home and abroad in individual and collective exhibitions and in numerous publications. Organizer and curator of exhibitions, workshops and open-air art and cultural events. He expresses himself creatively mainly through photography and video. His works are a search for a kind of compromise between purely conceptual and formal means of artistic expression, between which he puts a sign of equality. He often creates complex, polyptical objects complemented by moving images. In his works he goes far beyond the boundaries of classically understood photography. He treats it instrumentally. He combines it with other media, giving the image a sublime multidimensionality in space and time. A member of the Union of Polish Artists Photographers and the Union of Polish Artists. His works are in the collections of the National Museum in Wroclaw, the City of Wroclaw and private collections.
Author's website: www.michalpietrzak.pl / www.facebook.com/michpietrzak