Gate in Krakowskie Przedmieście street ( in Warsaw) Photograph - Limited Edition of 1

photography reprint UV 3/5 Paper glued to the foam 0,5cm Canon OCE for professionals Qality Matt Paper 180g Passe-Partout ( 70x50cm) 27,3x19,5 inch black frame EPIDERMIS Watching them for the first time, one gets an impression that the city is their leading topic.Indeed, the photographs by Krzysztof Pajak ilustrate quite a large collection of urban views.First photos of the series go back to 2001. text:magdalena wicherkiewicz A small, nevetheless carefully selected set has been presented on the exhibition at the Promotional Gallery.Krzysztof Pajak has registered sights that will be shortly gone : old Prague( right Vistula river bank) gates,Mokotow district backyards, stairs fragments, cobble stones in the Castle Square,paint peeling off old walls, picturesque shadows,architectonic details.In fact, an " urban" aspect has been merely a pretext, just an epidermis hiding underneath what is essntial for photography, i.e., light. That later playing a leading part in his photographs. Pająk makes prints in digital technology ( a UV print), though the process ussully starts with a black-and-white negative. I seems quite a complicated procedure, considering the fact that light is the photos' main topic.It turns out, however, that modern technology helps to stress the roots of photography.The light - spectral, elusive matter - has found an ally in the digital, equally immaterial environment.Paradoxically, due to the technique applied, the light adopts " fleshy", precise qualities.Sometimes, the registration method makes the pictures look nearly abstract. Those are pure matter studies: textures of the photographed surfaces,picture aspects approached e xclusively in technological aspect: grains,hues intensity,palette saturation. Thus, a specific “ photography of matter” is being created; focused on its “own self”, its material features. This brings out a wide spectrum of tangible experience: roughness, peeling,breaking, falling off. In a sense, this is nostalgic photography.The nostalgia refers to technical aspects – even though They are absolutely modern,they clearly reach to their roots – and to subject matter – attempts To record all that disappers after a shutter release is pressed. First of all, this is true with regard to the illusory nature of the light phenomenon, but also with regard to the objects and locations That simply no longer exist… From a formal point of view, the photos by Krzysztof Pajak can be divided into two groups. This division has been also suggested by the arrangement of the exhibition at the Promotional Gallery. The majority of pictures show close links with picture oriented approach: the moody Atmosphere, selection of picturesque qualities of the reistered motives, as though there were distinctive traces of Vilnius according to Bulhakov, Further, such features as great care for aesthetic expression of a photograph, accentuating its uniqueness through a small edition, seem close to the mentioned photographic trend. The second significant source – dominant, after deeper analysis of the photographs by Krzysztof Pajak – is modernistic, Bauhaus photography. The urban photographs by Krzysztof Pajak do not illustrate a comlete city and its vast panoramas.One is just faced its fragments, details, sections.”Fragmenting”, breaking into Pieces, revealing the whole through its fractions; all these seem to be typical of the author. This feature has been also revelaled strongly in his painting. One could go even further and Interpret the inclination to present fragments not merely as a formal gesture, but first of all as a metaphor of the destruction process, gradual decay, the entropy study record. All these presented in a very attractive, eye pleasing manner. The most of the photographs by Krzysztof Pajak have been maintained in a monochromatic Pallete – a full range of sepia browns or blacks and whites. Due to the applied technique, they display a high degree of saturation and distinctive contrasts.Only few photographs are in color, and even then limited to two or three of them. Thus, they appear to be the studies of color “as such”; betraying the author’s painting oriented sensitivity. Other photographs, alternately, have been mainly focused on graphic qualities, line drawing, textures, contrasts and subtle tone trasitions,but first of all – on marking the border between the light and shadow. Magdalena Wicherkiewicz Art historian, curator. on contemporary art. EXIT new art in poland No 1 (81) 2010

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