© Pszemek Dzienis, Pureview
Leica 6x7 Gallery Mysia 3 00-496 Varsovie Pologne
Leica 6x7 Gallery cordially invites to the “PUREVIEW" Exhibition by Przemek Dzienis.
Landscape has proven to be a long-time inspiration for the photography. This comes both from an eternal human need to document one’s surroundings and from historical connection between photography and painting. Until 1970s, this relationship remained a tumultuous one: full of enmity and reproaches, it consisted, among other things, of efforts to elaborate new approaches to the common legacy of the two domains.
The works by Przemek Dzienis to be shown in Leica Gallery give a perfect example of the newest turn in this historical relationship. Landscapes created by the artist with use of a photographic camera captivate with their minimalism and abstract-painting gestures through which the artist adds colour. For Dzienis, snow is the perfect canvas – it is both delicate and surprisingly textured. The snow fills the cadres almost entirely.
© Pszemek Dzienis, Pureview
© Pszemek Dzienis, Pureview
Przemek Dzienis has been known for several projects which differ from the one to be shown in the exhibition. It was a conscious decision. ‘I got fed up with commercial work in Warsaw, with the speed, crowds. So I left. I went to seek peace. In monochromatic winter I have found colour’ – says Przemek Dzienis.
The “range” used by the artist in the title of the exhibition should mean skilful composition of details of snowy landscapes with photographs where mountain tops are clearly visible. In this way, the cycle consists both of elements of abstraction and those of classic landscape. With such balance, as well as with staining of white surface of the pictures, a spectator needs to engage an effort to understand the kind of landscape he encounters.
Dzienis’s works show conscious decision to reduce available means of plastic expression. A new effect is added to the usually strikingly high technical quality of Dzienis’s realisations. It’s a skilful awakening of delight in front of a beautiful snowy landscape. The same kind of delight has been evoked by, for example, Edward Weston’s shootings of America’s national parks.
