"Old Man" Painting

Feliks Marciniak painting experience is based on simple visual means which are appropriate for related fields such as graphic design and monumental graffiti.

The work car­ried out on the canvas is cha­rac­te­ri­zed by cla­rity, purity and pre­ci­sion. For the author image is an object whose sur­face and edges are sub­ject to care­ful work out. The basics of form are: cha­rac­ter, line­arity, and color pla­ced flat. The most com­monly used design solu­tions are cen­tral and axial com­po­si­tion. In many pain­tings the natu­ral struc­ture of the linen is deli­be­ra­tely explo­ited. The line is some­ti­mes used to cre­ate not always fully reada­ble text func­tio­ning on a par with other ele­ments of the form. Sty­li­sti­cally, the works are suspen­ded between the figu­ra­tive and the abs­tract, in such a way that both of these featu­res accor­dingto co-exist. In the wall pro­jects, using the same means as in the pain­tings, Felix tries to respond to the pre­sent situ­ation.

Taking into acco­unt the deta­ils of the “found” rooms enri­ches his own com­po­si­tions with addi­tio­nal dimen­sions, both in terms of ver­bal as well as in their phy­si­cal spa­tia­lity. The author seems to strive to cre­ate type of ’side-spe­ci­fic’ work, struc­tu­rally rela­ted to the base in a par­ti­cu­lar loca­tion.

Ryszard Woźniak