At the exhibition appear works on paper  not previously widely shown. The most classical themes – natures mortes, portraits, landscapes, iconic paintings known from history of art textbooks – could be confused with drawings emerging in the frame of a painting group. A large number of the works are portraits of the artist drawn with charcoal on cardboard that seem to have emerged almost unconsciously, as exercises of the hand or the perfecting of one's technique. An “easel painter” concerned with colour, gesture and the relation between canvas and colour reveals his drawings, sketches and trials. They enable one to get to know not only the everyday work of the artist, but also his obsessionally recurring inspirations.

Beyond painting and drawing, Matecki also engages in the quick, but unusually attentive observation of lifestyle magazines. The photographs he retrieves from them he changes with one line or a few smudges. Without the slightest effort in the glare of colourful photos are to be found humorous or disturbing contents. He creates a subtle alternative reality – somewhat contestatory, but not destructive. It is a gesture of somewhat opening a window. On the question of how wide it is opened, of how much of the external light is allowed inside, of what is reflected in the mirror and then later painted, it is sometimes he who decides and sometimes chance or a short-lived curiosity.

Przemysław Matecki was born in 1976 in Żagań. He finished the Artistic Lyceum that was important in his biography in Cieplice, and obtained his higher education at the Institute of the Visual Arts at the University of Zielona Góra. He has been living and working for 10 years in Warsaw. He collaborates with the Raster Gallery in Warsaw and Carlier │Gebauer in Berlin.