MARCIN MACIEJOWSKI
2013-02-04The work of Marcin Maciejowski re-presents everyday images of our time. Using those already in popular circulation as starting points – found photographs, movies, posters, newspaper illustrations – his paintings naturally inherit the social and political implications of their source material.
Current affairs, film stills, military and religious figures and film noir femmes fatales all populate his art. Witty and often ironic, these subjects are presented in a deliberate abandonment of the traditions associated with the history of painting. Echoing the speed of the digital reproduction, the slowness of his chosen, analogue, medium brings an examination of the role of painting in today’s cultural world.
Exhibition runs through to June 2nd, 2013
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead Quays
South Shore Road
Gateshead
NE8 3BA
