OPENING OF THE MARCIN MARON PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION “Paris – City of Mirrors”

Gardzienice Centre for Theatre Practices

Gardzienice Gallery

cordially invite you

to the vernissage of the exhibition of photographs

Marcin Maron

‘Paris – the City of Mirrors’.

Exhibition opening: 19.09.2024, 6.00 pm

Gardzienice Gallery at 5a Grodzka Street in Lublin.

Marcin Maron

Graduate of the Cinematography Department of the State Higher School of Film and Television in Łódz, photographer and expert on film. He received his habilitation from the Institute of Audiovisual Arts at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He teaches photography and film history at the Department of Digital Media Art at the Faculty of Arts of UMCS in Lublin. He has presented his photographic works in solo exhibitions (including Images of Nature, photographs by Marcin Maron and pastels by Maria Koldryn, Andriolli Gallery NOK Nałęczów, 2024; One-Way Street. Photographs, Meeting of Cultures Center in Lublin 2022; Journey. Photographs, BWA Galeria Zamoyska, Zamość 2018 and collective exhibitions (including the 8th International Art Forum On Paper Without Borders…. Artists of the Tricentennial – Habitat 2024, Galeria Zamek, Przemyskie Centrum Kultury i Nauki and BWA Rzeszów 2024; Hommage a noir, Gallery IANG Name Seoul University Art Centre, Korea Pd 2019; One Belt One Road, Beijing, China 2019; Lublin meets New York, A. R. Gallery, India Street Brooklyn, NY USA 2019 and others). In 2022, he received an art scholarship from the City Mayor of Lublin.

Since 2010 he has been a lecturer at the Academy of Polish Film organized by the Polish Film Institute and FINA. Author of numerous articles and books on the history of Polish film, including Drama of Time and Imagination. Films of Wojciech J. Has, Kraków 2010 (nomination for the B. Michałek Award), Romanticism and Cinema. Romantic ideas and imagery in the films of Polish directors from 1949-1990 (Lublin 2019, award of the Polish Academy of Sciences for outstanding scientific achievements), Mieczysław Jahoda. Phenomena of Light (Łódź 2019). He is a member of the Polish Film and Media Research Association.

Paris – the city of mirrors

The photography exhibition “Paris – the City of Mirrors”, currently on display at the “Gardzienice” Gallery, opens the exhibition season after the summer break. At once at its threshold it takes us into the space of phenomenal Paris, which was captured in the artist’s photographs. “Paris – the City of Mirrors” is an invitation to downer what has not been discovered. It is a foretaste of those moments that are yet to come and whose delicate and unforced announcement are the photographs – snapshots of everyday life. Enchanted in stillness, the photographs encapsulate the most salient features of the Seine reality. What may be all the more attractive is the fact that in all its beauty of the City of Lights, much of it is a reflection of itself, using as a medium the small details of the moment we find and the ordinariness that we would probably not have paid attention to if not for the artist’s snapshots. Spheres that become a pretext for the correspondence of images, tiny blips dotting storefronts, signs, records, fragments of passing buildings and facades. “Paris – the City of Mirrors” is also a perfect arena for expressing our ideas about the heart of France, in which, like in the pages of ancient guidebooks, we can mark our associations and references. Thus, we can attempt to confront the artist’s vision with our attempt to situate places and events. So: where are we now? On which street and which photograph? Will it be possible to hear the rain breaking along the sidewalk? Or depict our own reflection in the mirror of a randomly passed by café?