ARTiculAction Art Review - Special Issuue Aug. 2016 | Page 174

ICUL CTION
C o n t e m p o r a r y

A r t

Marta Stysiak

R e v i e w

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generally places around which we organise our
daily routines and spend much time. Those in
TO MO look abandeoned but once were centers
of public life and holiday destinations. They are
also the artefacts of the past.
By the way, what is for you the appeal of
landscape images that isn’t found in other
genres, such as portrait or still-life?

Seeming emptiness full of details
Questioning the relationship between the
environment and human experience, your
work provides the viewers with an intense,
immersive experience: how do you see the
relationship between public sphere and the
role of art in public space? In particular, how
much do you consider the immersive nature
of the viewing experience?

I don't know. It's all about seeing these days,
the last thing you read is a paper or a book,
though the later you may listen on a car. So, it
maters what you watch and what do you look
at. As Claes Oldenburg said “Art is a
technique of communication. The image is the
most complete technique of all
communication.”
Your photographs seems to be the result
of a lot of planning and thought, but at
the same time they convey a sense of
spontaneity that is a hallmark of your
style. You seem to be wanting to move
beyond standard representation,
capturing a trascendental kind of
universality: creating what at first
appears to be a typical photograph but
subverting its inner compositional
elements, and consequently inducing the
viewer to realize that your work conveys
a different message. How important is for
you the character that you as the photographer impose on the images you capture?
Some of the ideas I had for the paricualr works

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