Marek Piasecki. A Friday Person

Marek Piasecki was born on a Saturday, 23 February 1935.

However, one of these works, one of the most intriguing, noted by Régis Durand, is titled A Friday Person (une personne du vendredi).

Can this shift of date help us understand the artist's gesture – or rather his own intimate trace – as a photographer and alchemist painter with surrealist roots? Marek Piasecki was one of the members of the Second Cracow Group, at the invitation of Tadeusz Kantor; he exhibited his miniatures with the Phases group (Galerie Krzysztofory, Kraków, 1959), but he truly felt at home in his hermetic studio with its windows blacked out, working at night, where he created his strange abstract photograms, dolls and miniatures, like so many photographic records of his own moods.

On occasion, he also took photographs for the press.

Do these emotional movements, running from the inside outwards and vice versa, reveal his work, full of constellations, within a singular exhibition?

This question, among others, will be at the heart of the exhibition of selected works by the artist covering the period 1957–1967 (before his permanent departure for Sweden), at La Galerie Le Minotaure in Paris.