Maciej Kuszela specialises in "photographic domestication" of urban landscape. He completed ZPAF Photography School in Warsaw (1994). Member of ZPAF since 1994. Major individual exhibitions: Cities and Gardens, Photo a l`Ouest Festival, Rennes, France (2008); Photography, anders.art.atelier, Elmshorn, Germany (2010); Cities and Gardens, Stara Galeria SPAF, Warsaw (2011). Major group exhibitions: The Eight, ZPAF, Łódź, Vilnius, Warsaw, Algiers (2005-2006); 2nd Photo-document Festival, Poznań, Warsaw (2009-2010); Stories from the Borderland - (Non)Presence, NN Gallery, Lublin (2011); 7th Photography Biennial Poznań (2011). Works in private collections.
2003/2012
pigment print, Canson Infinity Edition Etching Rag 310 g, 40 x 48.6 cm,
signature, date and description on the front, Digigraphie dry stamp,
edition: 2/20 + 3 a.p. (this size)
The Cities and Gardens series includes portraits, interiors, architecture, gardens and landscapes. To create them, the author employs a range of negative process manipulations. The resulting photographs tell stories about the passing of time, fragility of existence and even death (the process has never been completed, which means one day they will vanish completely). Some of them are narratives about the world, which seems to be one great mystery, or show an intriguing interaction between shapes.
Exhibitions: Stara Galeria ZPAF, Warsaw; Skene Gallery, Jelenia Góra; anders.art.atelier, Elmshorn (Germany); Photoalouest Festival, Rennes (France); MS Gallery, Stanisław Staszic Museum, Piła; Poland Now, Photomonth in Cracow; Metamorphoses of Photography, 10 Gallery, Brno (Czech Republic); Visible - Invisible, 3rd Biennale of Photography, Poznań.
Publications: Pozytyw No. 3/2005; Fotografia quarterly No. 34/2010; Private Spaces album, Wielkopolski Branch Office of ZPAF (2011).
Maciej Kuszela specialises in "photographic domestication" of urban landscape. He completed ZPAF Photography School in Warsaw (1994). Member of ZPAF since 1994. Major individual exhibitions: Cities and Gardens, Photo a l`Ouest Festival, Rennes, France (2008); Photography, anders.art.atelier, Elmshorn, Germany (2010); Cities and Gardens, Stara Galeria SPAF, Warsaw (2011). Major group exhibitions: The Eight, ZPAF, Łódź, Vilnius, Warsaw, Algiers (2005-2006); 2nd Photo-document Festival, Poznań, Warsaw (2009-2010); Stories from the Borderland - (Non)Presence, NN Gallery, Lublin (2011); 7th Photography Biennial Poznań (2011). Works in private collections.