BREAKFAST ON THE GRASS #2. AFTER ÉDOUARD MANET (2017) Photography by Marta Lesniakowska

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Fotografia z serii „Obrazy zawłaszczone” transmediuje z dwiema tradycjami artystycznymi. Po pierwsze z ikonicznym płótnem impresjonizmu „Śniadaniem na trawie” Eduarda Maneta, odnoszącym się do kultury czasu wolnego, odkrytego w XIX wieku, a teraz osadzonego w kontekście XXI wieku. Wypłukany mroczny kolor fotografii cyfrowej prowokacyjnie odrzuca programowy[...]
Fotografia z serii „Obrazy zawłaszczone” transmediuje z dwiema tradycjami artystycznymi. Po pierwsze z ikonicznym płótnem impresjonizmu „Śniadaniem na trawie” Eduarda Maneta, odnoszącym się do kultury czasu wolnego, odkrytego w XIX wieku, a teraz osadzonego w kontekście XXI wieku. Wypłukany mroczny kolor fotografii cyfrowej prowokacyjnie odrzuca programowy impresjonistyczny „czysty” kolor malarskiego płótna Maneta. W ten sposób staje się dosłownie/materialnie, a zarazem metaforycznie obrazem upływającego czasu oraz ułomnej pamięci, która podprogowo, ale jednak niedokładnie przywołuje pozornie dobrze znany pierwowzór, którego XIX-wieczna semantyka także ulega zatarciu. Moje „Śniadanie…” jest więc osadzone w znanym dyskursie o fotografii jako indeksie, śladzie, odcisku, archiwum, wpisując się w nurt fotografii-sztuki dialogującej i redefiniującej koncept Rolanda Barthes’a.
Drugim źródłem tej fotografii jest romantyzm i jego strategia teatralizacji obrazu. Na polanie otoczonej ramą mrocznego lasu niczym w płótnach Caspara Davida Friedricha obserwujemy czworo siedzących na trawie osób. To punctum obrazu. Grupa znajduje się w głębi obrazu, odgrodzona od widza wodą jak proscenium w teatrze. Punktowe, pochodzące spoza kadru górne światło zakłóca pozornie sielankową scenę, wytwarzając mroczną, niepokojącą aurę jak w film noire i kinie katastroficznym: ktoś/coś obserwuje tych ludzi ?
Te przywołania i przetworzenia nie są przypadkowe: w moim „pamiętającym spojrzeniu” badam problem polimorficzności romantyzmu w aktualnej sytuacji jego „zmętnienia znaczenia” jako projektu niedokończonego Innej nowoczesności.
Moja fotografia jest więc reinterpretacją i rewizją zarówno romantyzmu, jak impresjonizmu i jest ufundowana na podejściu komparatystycznym, które jest możliwe także w procesie wytwarzania obrazów. Pozwala to wydobyć na powierzchnię naszej współczesności ciągle wyłaniające się fragmenty impresjonistyczne i romantyczne, ich skamieniałości, okruchy, ślady niczym w archeologicznych odkrywkach. Tym samym pozwala to przyjrzeć się zjawisku „powrotu romantyzmu” w dzisiejszym czasie postromantycznym. (ml)

Fotografia reprodukowana na okładce "Artmajeur Magazine" 2023 nr 26,
zamieszczony w tym numerze artykuł:
Olimpia Gaia Martinelli, Portrait d'Artiste:Marta Lesniakowska, p. 38-40.

The photography in the 'Appropriated Images' series transmediates with two artistic traditions. Firstly with the iconic canvas of Impressionism, Eduard Manet's 'Breakfast on the Grass', referring to the culture of leisure, discovered in the 19th century and now set in a 21st century context. The washed-out murkiness of digital photography provocatively rejects the programmatic Impressionist 'pure' colour of Manet's painterly canvas. In this way, it becomes literally/materialistically and yet metaphorically an image of passing time and of a flawed memory that sublimely but nevertheless inaccurately evokes a seemingly well-known original, whose 19th-century semantics are also being obliterated. My 'Breakfast...' is thus embedded in the well-known discourse on photography as index, trace, imprint, archive, inscribing itself in the current of photography-art dialoguing and redefining Roland Barthes' concept.
The second source of this photography is Romanticism and its strategy of theatricalising the image. In a clearing surrounded by the frame of a dark forest, as in the canvases of Caspar David Friedrich, we observe four people sitting on the grass. This is the punctum of the painting. The group is in the depths of the painting, separated from the viewer by water like a proscenium in a theatre. A pinpoint overhead light coming from outside the frame disturbs the seemingly idyllic scene, producing a dark, disturbing aura as in film noire and disaster cinema: someone/something is watching these people ?
These evocations and transformations are not accidental: in my 'remembering gaze', I explore the problem of the polymorphousness of Romanticism in the current situation of its 'opacity of meaning' as an unfinished project of the Other Modernity.
My photography is thus a reinterpretation and revision of both Romanticism and Impressionism and is founded on a comparative approach that is also possible in the process of image-making. It makes it possible to bring to the surface of our contemporaneity the continually emerging Impressionist and Romantic fragments, their fossils, crumbs, traces as if in archaeological excavations. Thus, it allows us to look at the phenomenon of the 'return of Romanticism' in today's post-Romantic time. (ml)

Photograph reproduced on the cover of "Artmajeur Magazine" 2023 No. 26, featured article in this issue:
Olimpia Gaia Martinelli, Portrait d'Artiste:Marta Lesniakowska, p. 38-40.

Collector's photography, colour. Digital print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Baryta 315g (semi-flash), archival paper, acid-free. signed on the front and on the back . dated 2017/print 2022 life time print. Format 40x40 cm in the image light, paper 50x50 cm frame. Not glued. Certificate of Authenticity. Without damages. Ref. archive file: DSCF8989.raw
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Marta Lesniakowska is an artist photographer but also, at the same time, historian and art critic, she does research on visual culture. This is what determines his approach to photography: a strategy[...]

Marta Lesniakowska is an artist photographer but also, at the same time, historian and art critic, she does research on visual culture. This is what determines his approach to photography: a strategy of the “look that remembers”, which recalls familiar images from the history of art in order to transmit/intertextualize them. Her dialogue with them consists in asking herself if it is possible to evoke their meanings and what they are or can be today. She is fascinated by light - its role in the construction of the image, the parergon that creates the image. This is why, in street photography, she analyzes the interplay of light and dark, the relationship between sharpness and blur and the interpenetration of images as simultaneous realities. In this way, she brings out the mysterious character of the city, referring to the aesthetics of black cinema and to the master of 20th century street photography, Saul Leiter.(ml)

When she takes photographs, nothing is more or less important to her; his gaze is often governed by the principles of minimalist poets: an economy of detail, the discovery of subtexts and insinuations hidden in invisible objects and bits of everyday reality.

Marta Lesniakowska lives and works in Poland. His works are part of public collections (National Museum in Wroclaw, Museum of Bydgoszcz) and private collections (Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, United States).

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