Now I live in the countryside
17.10.2003 - 04.11.2003
Exhibitions
- Upcoming
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- Past
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015
- 2014
- Chram || Andrzej Żygadło
- Noumen | Mikołaj Rejs
- Storm, Empty collection – SHOWOFF 2014 Month of Photography
- I’ll be right back | Sasha Kurmaz
- Misteria || Katarzyna Kukuła
- Hive | Aga Miłogrodzka
- D.O.M || Andrzej Żygadło
- A house from paintings | Marek Firek
- TRIP FOLK; or enteogens in the service of urban folklore | Sławek Shuty
- 2013
- 2012
- Inside of lights and shadows | Tomasz Prymon
- GOLEM: The Self-sufficit Workshop | Adam Gruba
- The Veblen Effect | Dorota Hadrian
- All this street art | Anna Brandys, Brems, Coxie, Czarnobyl, Massmix, Nawer, Nespoon, Pikaso, Roem, Artur Wabik, Zbiok
- Berlin-Birkenau / Krakers || Łukasz Surowiec
- video R || Piotr Swiatoniowski
- 2011
- Brave virgin | Iwona Demko
- 150 apes | The Krasnals
- Swallow Anxiety | Bartek Buczek
- The wolf is very bad | Natalia Bażowska, Ewa Juszkiewicz, Agata Kus
- Not full / semi-complete | Małgorzata Markiewicz
- Deep field | Kornel Janczy
- Years of education | Michał Zawada
- Dimensions of the echo | Kamil Szpunar
- 2010
- 2009
- 2008
- 2007
- Searching for aura | Ewa Wróbel
- Shame before the repetition | Bartosz Kokosiński
- The Celebration of Erwin Koloczek | Jacek Malinowski
- I almost do not go out | Katarzyna Skrobiszewska
- I’m only here for a while | Maciej Szczurek
- The song Buttes Monteaux with the clip and three oil paintings | Norman Leto
- 2006
- 2005
- 2004
- Portraits of banknotes | Pola Dwurnik
- Holidays on the Red Sea | Marta Paulat
- Everywhere wants to be seen | Katarzyna Skrobiszewska
- Assembly and painting | Marcin Mroczkowski
- Lisboa | Agnieszka Kicińska
- Makro | Karolina Kowalska
- Can you do that? | Malwina Rzonca
- Relatively spacious | Joanna Pawlik
- Tablo | Agata Pankiewicz
- 2003
Opening Hours
Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm
Gallery
Art Agenda Nova
Batorego 2, Krakow
Artist
Marcin Cieński
ABOUT EXHIBITION
Marcin Cieński's paintings presented at the exhibition "Now I live in the countryside" in Art Agenda Nova are a dozen or so of the artist's latest canvases. Marcin Cieński's works are closely related to the surrounding reality, the artist has a perfect sense of observation, sense of form and color, and the presented works convince us that for a young artist the perfect workshop is of great importance. The specific atmosphere of seemingly trivial landscapes and scenes in interiors has reached Cieński with a saturated color scale - deep grenades, greens, orange and violet. The nuances of light and shadow hypnotize the viewer, the light of the lamp post, the fire from the fireplace, the light that emanates from the windows of a typical block after dark brings out the figures and objects while making them unreal. As for the content layer of images, I will use my own commentary:
I have been living in the countryside for 7 months, in the Krakowsko-Częstochowska Jura, on the edge of the Ojcowski National Park. The presented pictures (with one exception) were painted here.
Before moving to Krakow, my studio was located in the backyard of a primary school, where from behind the wall came the sounds of lessons taking place, and beyond the window was the panorama of Kurdwanów. In that environment, I painted "Kurdwanów". With some astonishment I noticed how the place determines what I paint. A sudden move meant that the local sielskość entered the paintings. It turned out that it was difficult for me to remain indifferent to the spectacular sunsets, starry skies and all this idyllic staffage, which squeezes itself on the paintings.
That is why I stopped critically and in disbelief to look at the everyday spectacle of sunset, swirling clouds, pinks, rays and other "special effects". My stay here will soon end and probably from the perspective of the city again it will be difficult for me to believe that all these "fireworks" are the usual everyday life in the vicinity of Ojców.
The exhibition of Marcin Cieński's paintings will be available in the Nova Gallery until November 4.