BLUE CURTAIN # 78. AFTER YVES KLEIN (2015) Photography by Marta Lesniakowska

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Minimalistyczna fotografia gładkiej kurtyny w intensywnym kolorze indygo, która pokrywa szczelnie całe pole obrazowe, jest konceptualnym działaniem na temat strategii wizualności/widzenia. Obraz sięga po psychoanalizę i analizuje granicę między tu i tam, widocznym i niewidocznym, świadomym i nieświadomym, wywołując uczucie niepokoju, sytuacji onirycznej,[...]
Minimalistyczna fotografia gładkiej kurtyny w intensywnym kolorze indygo, która pokrywa szczelnie całe pole obrazowe, jest konceptualnym działaniem na temat strategii wizualności/widzenia. Obraz sięga po psychoanalizę i analizuje granicę między tu i tam, widocznym i niewidocznym, świadomym i nieświadomym, wywołując uczucie niepokoju, sytuacji onirycznej, surrealistycznej, rządzonej nie dającą się zaspokoić ciekawością, co skrywa kurtyna i równie niemożliwego do zaspokojenia pożądania, by przejść poza zasłonę, w głąb obrazu, na jego drugą stronę. Odwołuję się tu zarówno do szekspirowskiej zasłony („Hamlet”, III/3), jak do freudowskiego napięcia charakterystycznego dla film noire. A także, last but not least, do filmów Davida Lyncha z obsesyjnie pojawiającymi się kurtynami projektującymi labiryntową przestrzeń anarchitektury. Ale kurtyna w kolorze intensywnego indygo uruchamia pamięć widza nie tylko o „Blue Velvet” Lyncha. Także, na innym poziomie, wchodzi w intertekstualny dialog z monochromami Yves Kleina z lat 1950-60, które artysta realizował przy pomocy wynalezionego przez siebie koloru, który opatentował pod nazwą International Klein Blue. Moja fotografia przywołuje tym samym pamięć konceptualnej wystawy-instalacji Kleina z 1958 roku "The Void"/"Pustka", gdzie głównym tworzywem była pusta przestrzeń galerii poddana minimalistycznej teatralizacji za pomocą niebieskich kurtyn. "Z pustką pełna moc", napisał o tej instalacji Albert Camus. (ml)

Fotografia wyróżniona przez kuratora Artmajeur w dziale: Ekskluzywne kolekcje: Niebieski, 2023

A minimalist photograph of a smooth curtain in an intense indigo colour, which tightly covers the entire image field, is a conceptual work on the strategies of visuality/seeing. The image draws on psychoanalysis to analyse the boundary between here and there, the visible and the invisible, the conscious and the unconscious, evoking a feeling of unease, an oneiric, surreal situation, governed by an unquenchable curiosity about what the curtain conceals and an equally unquenchable desire to move beyond the curtain, into the depths of the image, to its other side. I refer here both to Shakespeare's veil ('Hamlet', III/3) and to the Freudian tension characteristic of film noire. And also, last but not least, to David Lynch's films with their obsessively appearing curtains designing a labyrinthine space of anarchitecture. But the intense indigo-coloured curtain triggers the viewer's memory not only of Lynch's 'Blue Velvet'. Also, on another level, it enters into an intertextual dialogue with Yves Klein's 1950-60s monochromes, which the artist realised using a colour he invented and patented under the name International Klein Blue. My photograph thus evokes the memory of Klein's 1958 conceptual exhibition-installation 'The Void'/'The Void', where the main material was an empty gallery space subjected to minimalist theatricality by means of blue curtains. "With emptiness full power", Albert Camus wrote of this installation. (ml)

Photograph highlighted by curator Artmajeur in the section: Exclusive Collections: Blue, 2023

Collector's photography, color. Digital print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315g (semi-flash), archival paper, acid-free. signed on the front lower left corner and on the back . dated 2015/print 2022 - life time print. Format 40x40 cm in the image light, wipaper 50x50 cm . Not glued. Certificate of Authenticity. Without damages.. Ref. archive file: DSCF1878.raw

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KurtynaHamlet SzekspirYves KleinPustkaAlbert Camus

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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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