Mateusz Piestra Traces - shapes - signs

Traces - shapes - signs

The exhibition opens the door to the artist's personal space, where everyday life is intertwined with melancholy, and ordinary objects acquire symbolic weight and universal meaning. In the unfinished brushstrokes, broken lines and rubbed contours, we find motifs that are the key to understanding the world of Mateusz Piestrak's imagination.

After several years of processing and numerous reinterpretations of the theme centered around OSB - Mateusz Piestrak again decides to return to the monochromatic color range, with which he tries to present the viewer with the world seen through his eyes. As he says himself, he doesn't reach far for the motifs that become the subject of his paintings - very often he finds them in his closest surroundings. The triviality of this pictorial reality lies in the fact that it is built up by the simplest objects - such as nails, cardboard boxes, branches, glasses and even badminton darts - which the artist treats as a collection of inspiring waste of reality.

In the simplicity of form, Piestrak reveals another characteristic element that makes up the presented series - and that is a certain sensitivity to the density of the matter that builds his images. Just as the OSB board was a tangle of wood shavings - here we observe the ubiquitous black and white grain, which seems to evoke various connotations. It can be associated with the black and white snow screen of an old TV, photographic pixels, the texture of drying concrete or ash.

Presented at the exhibition Traces - Shapes - Signs, the series of paintings by Matuesz Piestrak is a kind of shadow theater, in which the main roles are played by objects most marginalized due to their common availability. Each work forms a part of a larger reality, in which the conventional and symbolic are intertwined with the emotionally charged.

Vernissage: 13.12.2024 at 6:00 pm
Exhibition: 13.12.2024 - 30.01.2025