2LC Negative/Positive DipSym Drawing

Large scale Diptych graphite drawing, each panel 5 x 4 ft / 150 x 120 cm, completed 2009. Left Panel - Solid graphite block leaving 5mm 'Negative' paper line (duration 1 month) Right Panel - Erased solid graphite block to 5mm 'Positive' graphite line (duration 3 months) CONTINUUM at The Hive Gallery, Barnsley UK Review (extracts) by Mik Godley for NVA "I’m no formalist, and I have little appreciation for “process art” if that’s what this is, so for the last twenty years I’ve often wondered “what on earth is Marek up to – painting circles all the time?” Frankly, such a practice would drive me nuts. More recently though, I think I’m beginning to “get it”: both the motive and making of Marek’s marathon graphite drawings presented .. Despite the idiocy of the process, the sheer craziness of spending months applying graphite onto large sheets of paper then erasing it off again, the economic reality that no one would ever buy such a thing for anything approaching a decent hourly rate – artistically some things just have to be done: the commitment and endurance of making such things forces the maker to really think about what they are doing .. one level the impressive drawings .. celebrate artistic difficulty and perseverance .. This show demands some work of its audience .. what really got me in the end was the cumulative effect of looking round this show .. the elegant quality of line, often perfectly smooth curves as one arc joins the next .. the trace of every move left evident .. a dialogue looking towards symmetry and calm, yet just avoiding by a whisker, retaining its life by never quite reaching it. I loved the scrappiness of some of bits of paper showing .. working out his compositions .. counterbalanced by the sharply controlled line drawings .. In fact the whole show was all a balancing act between cool formal mechanical abstraction and our very human imperfect hands – perhaps a perspective on the way we live and a debate on aesthetics

Multi-paneled Drawing:Pencil on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:94.5 W x 59.1 H x 2 D in

Number of Panels:2

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