I don't remember her name
1.09.2007-29.09.2007

New paintings by Bartek Materka presented in Raster are inspired by a series of particular neurological vision distortions described by Oliver Sacks in the book "Anthropologist on Mars". The accounts of a painter who became insensitive to colors, or a man who cannot come to terms with the fact that he regained his sight have been interpreted by Materka through his personal experience. The artist has arrived at three different painting manners, characteristic of particular sight distortions. The works form a dense and rather murky narrative revolving around the theme of disrupted vision, but at the same time, the unstable emotional situation and obsessively recurring images of women's faces.
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What did you see in this park? - Nothing..
16.10.2004 - 18.11.2004

Bartek Materka chose a dialogue from Antionioni's "Blow-up" as the title for his solo show in Raster. Materka is a painter, whose works, while seen from close and bigger distance, often show different things. The themes are seemingly ordinary: view of a block of flats in his hometown Gdansk, close-ups of faces, a tree, a beach or traffic lights. The pictures themselves however, are intriguing and surprising. At times they look like photographs that were not fully printed, image in a broken TV set or even works from an album with abstract art from the 60's. All the images, taken from the everyday reality, seem somewhat unreal, be that because of the color palette or peculiar methods of image transmission, like wives and portraits made of several layers of digits and letters resembling the computer ASCII code.