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

However, one of his most intriguing works, selected by Regis Durand, is titled a Friday Person. Could this shift in the date serve as a tool  of knowlege to describe the artist’s gesture—or rather his inner trace—as a photographer and chemical painter with a surrealist background? 

Marek Piasecki was a member of the Second Krakow Group (at the invitation of Tadeusz Kantor); he exhibited his miniatures alongside the Phases group (Krzysztofory Gallery, Kraków, 1959), but he felt most at home in his hermetic studio, with windows sealed black, working at night, where he created the strange abstract photograms, dolls, and miniatures, photographical record of his inner order of moods. 

He also occasionally photographed reportage that he published in the press. 

Can this internal movement of emotions from the inside to the outside and vice versa elevate a total work, full of constellations, within the framework of a single exhibition? 

This and other questions are explored in an exhibition of the artist’s works from the period 1957–67 (before his departure for Sweden) at Galerie Le Minotaure. 

Curated by Valérie Fougeirol & Rafal Lewandowski

In collaboration with: galeria Asymetria (Warsaw), Weekend à l’Est, Institut Polonais, Bicentenaire de la Photographie