RED BAR # 29. FROM THE SERIES: BARS (2024) Photography by Marta Lesniakowska

Photography, 15.8x15.8 in
$2,644.84
Free Shipping

Customer's reviews (5)
Shipping from: Poland (Box or cardboard packaging) Ships within 2 days
14-day return policy
Shipping worldwide
100% secure transaction
Free Returns
Delivery by ArtMajeur: The shipping of this artwork is handled directly by ArtMajeur from pickup to final delivery to customer. Customs not included.
  • Packaging (Box or cardboard packaging) All artworks are shipped with a premium carrier, carefully protected and insured.
  • Tracking Order tracking until the parcel is delivered to the buyer. A tracking number will be provided so that you can follow the parcel in real-time.
  • Delay Worldwide delivery in 3 to 7 days (Estimate)
  • Customs not included The price does not include customs fees. Most countries have no import tax for original artworks, but you may have to pay the reduced VAT. Customs fees (if any) are to be calculated on arrival by the customs office and will be billed separately by the carrier.
ArtMajeur guarantees you to make every effort to enable you to acquire authentic original works at the fairest price, or reimburse you in full.
  • Trackable Online Certificate of Authenticity Authenticity Certificates can be verified online at any moment by scanning the artwork code.
  • Artist Value Certification Experts study the work and career of an artist then establish an independent and reliable average price value. The average price value situates the artist on a price range for a given period. The experts may also be asked to establish a more precise estimate for a particular work.
100% secure transaction, Accepted Payment Methods: Credit Card, PayPal, Bank Transfer.
Secured direct purchase The transaction is guaranteed by ArtMajeur: the seller will get paid only once the customer has received the artwork.
100% secure payment with SSL certificate + 3D Secure.
Free Returns: 14-day return policy.
Returns Accepted 14 days ArtMajeur is 100% committed to the satisfaction of collectors: you have 14 days to return an original work. The work must be returned to the artist in perfect condition, in its original packaging. All eligible items can be returned (unless otherwise indicated).
Artwork signed by the artist
Certificate of Authenticity included
This artwork appears in 5 collections
Nocny bar, kino, parking, hotel i witryny sklepowe to kanoniczne figury definiujące modernistyczne miasto, którego widzenie/wyobrażenie konstruowało we właściwy estetycznie sposób modernistyczne malarstwo, fotografia i film. W moim cyklu „Bary” nic nie jest jednoznaczne. Pozornie zwykła, przypadkowa scena z czerwonym neonem nieczynnego baru jest niepokojąca, [...]
Nocny bar, kino, parking, hotel i witryny sklepowe to kanoniczne figury definiujące modernistyczne miasto, którego widzenie/wyobrażenie konstruowało we właściwy estetycznie sposób modernistyczne malarstwo, fotografia i film. W moim cyklu „Bary” nic nie jest jednoznaczne. Pozornie zwykła, przypadkowa scena z czerwonym neonem nieczynnego baru jest niepokojąca, oniryczna niczym nocne obrazy Rene Magritte’a, i w moim pamiętającym spojrzeniu dialoguje z estetyką kina noire odkrywającego mroczność i chaotyczną fragmentaryczność nowoczesnej metropolii. Pole obrazowe zbudowane zostało ze słowa, geometrii, diagonali i znanej ze stylu film noire gry światło-ciemność. Jak w wielu moich fotografiach używam tu środków filmowych definiujących styl film noire oparty na tzw. niskiej tonacji/niskiego klucza oświetleniowego (low key), czyli wizualnego efektu obrazu o ciemnej skali. Redefiniuję ten styl w agresywnym kolorze częściowo uszkodzonego czerwonego neonu na tle czarnej ściany i grantowego nieba. Tak zorganizowane determinuje psychofizjologię recepcji, ewokując skrywane w tym kadrze emocje. Dominujące na pierwszym planie słowo-obraz „Bar” odnosi się do estetyki analogowej fotografii barwnej lat sześćdziesiątych-osiemdziesiątych XX wieku i sztuki artystów popkulturowych, którzy stosowali słowa jako narzędzia estetyczne, czasem przekształcane w abstrakcyjne formy bez dosłownego znaczenia. Moja fotografia dialoguje więc z fotografią Williama Egglestona i z obrazami-słowami Eda Ruschy, prekursora kultury słów, „nieustraszonego badacza języka i obrazu”. Ten anachronizm w mojej fotografii ma znaczenie. Pulsująca czerwień neonu wyłania się z czarnej pustki, ewokując poczucie spleenu, melancholii, niepokoju i widmowości. Nocny bar, jedno z kultowych miejsc w nowoczesnym mieście, eksploatowane najpierw przez impresjonistów (vide jeden z najbardziej enigmatycznych obrazów Edouarda Maneta „Bar w Folies-Bergère” (1882), tutaj - zredukowane do neonowego słowa jako ekwiwalentnego obrazu baru - zostaje przeniesione w dzisiejszy kontekst jako metamodernistyczna transmediacja z modernistyczną tradycją, poprowadzona po to, by pytać, czy i jak rezonuje ona w dzisiejszej kulturze XXI wieku. (ml)

digital on archival paper Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315g (semi-flash), archival paper, acid-free
signed on the front and on the back
dated 2024/print BAT (bon a tirer) 2024
Format 40x40 cm on a paper 50x50 cm

The night bar, the cinema, the car park, the hotel and the shopfronts are the canonical figures that define the modernist city, whose vision/image was constructed in the aesthetically appropriate way by modernist painting, photography and film. In my series ‘Bars’, nothing is unambiguous. A seemingly ordinary, random scene with the red neon sign of a disused bar is unsettling, dreamlike like Rene Magritte's nocturnal paintings, and in my memorable gaze dialogues with the aesthetics of cinema noire exploring the darkness and chaotic fragmentation of the modern metropolis. The pictorial field is constructed from words, geometry, diagonals and the familiar play of light and dark from the film noire style. As in many of my photographs, I use here the cinematic means that define the film noire style based on the so-called low key/low light key, i.e. the visual effect of an image with a dark scale. I redefine this style in the aggressive colour of a partially damaged red neon sign against a black wall and a grant sky. Organised in this way, it determines the psychophysiology of reception, evoking the emotions hidden in this frame. The dominant word-image ‘Bar’ in the foreground refers to the aesthetics of analogue colour photography of the 1960s-eighties and the art of pop culture artists who used words as aesthetic tools, sometimes transformed into abstract forms without literal meaning. My photography thus dialogues with the photography of William Eggleston and with the images-words of Ed Ruscha, a precursor of word culture, ‘a fearless explorer of language and image’. This anachronism in my photography is significant. The pulsating red of the neon sign emerges from the black void, evoking a sense of spleen, melancholy, anxiety and spectrality. The night bar, one of the iconic places in the modern city, first exploited by the Impressionists (vide one of Edouard Manet's most enigmatic paintings, ‘The Bar at the Folies-Bergère’ (1882), here - reduced to the neon word as an equivalent image of the bar - is brought into the contemporary context as a metamodern transmediation with the modernist tradition, guided to ask if and how it resonates in today's 21st century culture. (ml)

digital on archival paper Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315g (semi-flash), archival paper, acid-free
signed on the front and on the back
dated 2024/print BAT (bon a tirer) 2024
Format 40x40 cm on a paper 50x50 cm

Related themes

BaarFilm NoireRene MagrittePsychofizjologiaWilliam Eggleston

Automatically translated
Follow
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 [...]

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).

See more from Marta Lesniakowska

View all artworks
Photography | 15.8x15.8 in
$2,407.97
Photography | 15.8x15.8 in
$2,407.97
Photography | 15.8x15.8 in
$2,407.97
Photography | 15.8x15.8 in
$2,407.97

ArtMajeur

Receive our newsletter for art lovers and collectors