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Taking as his point of departure the excrements and garbage (also literally) of contemporary visual and material culture, Matecki produces painterly beings - paintings, objects and installations - representing the highest degree of sophistication. In his works, he combines press photographs and reproductions with a noble painterly camouflage. Matecki's art has a radical and experimental nature. Vulgar at times, his works flirt with pornography and politics, only to win (in a somewhat unclear way) the forces of evil over to his side. Simultaneously, this art has a peculiar and rare quality - an ability to revolutionize one's way of perceiving reality and to reconstruct a "better world" using pieces of the one in which we breathe everyday. Matecki's painting has an exceptional rhetorical force which is used to challenge the culture, including its most down-to-earth manifestations. It brings a specific, non-academic sensitivity to the painterly image and, at the same time, a countercultural energy that lets the paintings - constructed out of quotations, stencils, torn-out press photos - have a life of their own, here and now.. |
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Solo exhibitions:
2007
- Raster, Warsaw, PL (with Pawel Susid)
2006
- BWA Gallery, Zielona Gora, PL
- Sasidis Motecki, Pies Gallery, Poznan, PL (with Pawel Susid)
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Selected group exhibitions:
2007
- 1, 2, 3, Ueberraschung, Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt/Oder, DE
2006
- New trends in Polish painting, BWA Gallery, Bydgoszcz, PL
2005
- Longing for Painting, Regional Museum, Zielona Gora, PL
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