Marek Szczęsny

30 Jan-13 Mar 2015

Overview

For its inaugural exhibition, l’étrangère opens with the first UK solo presentation of Marek Szczęsny. Throughout a career spanning almost forty years, Szczesny has worked on canvas and paper to produce paintings that oscillate between abstraction and figuration, the subjective gaze and the personal encounter. Born in Poland in 1939, Szczesny was an attendee at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk in the late 1950s. In the 1960s he became associated with a group of artists from the ‘ZAK’ student cultural club in Gdansk, where he exhibited his first works. In 1978 Szczesny left Poland for Paris where he still lives and works.