Marek Piasecki was born on a Saturday, February 23, 1935. Yet one of his most intriguing works, noted by Régis Durand, is titled A Friday Person. Might this shift in date help us understand the artist's gesture - or rather his own intimate trace - as a photographer and alchemist painter with surrealist roots?
Marek Piasecki was a member of the Second Kraków Group, at the invitation of Tadeusz Kantor; he exhibited his miniatures with the Phases Group (Galerie Krzysztofory, Kraków, 1959), but he truly felt at home in his hermetic studio, its windows sealed in black, working at night, where he created his strange abstract photograms, dolls, and miniatures - so many photographic recordings of his own moods. On occasion, he also worked as a press photographer. Do these emotional movements, moving from inside to outside and back again, reveal his work, full of constellations, within this singular exhibition? This question, among others, lies at the heart of the exhibition of selected works by the artist from the period 1957-1967 (before his definitive departure for Sweden), at the Galerie Le Minotaure in Paris.
Galerie Le Minotaure
The Galerie Le Minotaure was founded in 2002 by Benoît Sapiro. A devoted art historian and an expert with the Compagnie Nationale des Experts, he specialized in artists of the École de Paris and in the European avant-gardes born of the social revolutions of the early twentieth century. The gallery originally opened at 2 rue des Beaux-Arts in Paris, in the former premises of the celebrated Surrealist bookshop of the same name. A second space opened in 2023, at 23 rue de Seine.