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RED BAR # 29. FROM THE SERIES: BARS (2024) Photography by Marta Lesniakowska
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Limited Edition (#1/5)
Photography,
Digital Photography
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Non Manipulated Photography
on Cardboard
- Number of copies available 5
- Dimensions Height 15.8in, Width 15.8in
- Artwork's condition The artwork is in perfect condition
- Framing This artwork is not framed
- Categories Photographs under $5,000 Street Art City
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
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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Nationality:
POLAND
- Date of birth : unknown date
- Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
- Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary Polish Artists