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CONTINUUM at The Hive Gallery - Reviewed by Mik Godley
For Nottingham Visual Arts - full article link below -
"I’m no formalist, and I have little appreciation for “process art” if that’s what this is, so for the last twenty years I’ve often wondered “what on earth is Marek up to – painting circles all the time?”
Frankly, such a practice would drive me nuts. More recently though, I think I’m beginning to “get it”: both the motive and making of Marek’s marathon graphite drawings presented as the focus of his current show ..."
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AFTS - Nottingham Castle
Continuum in Symmetry
Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham
... The more you look at them, the more these gently curving intersections of line start to propose multiple possibilities. They appear suggestive of the human
body, both in its exterior outline and like internal anatomical images of convoluted veins and intestines. They also take you deeper inwards, simular in their amorphic sensibility to sub cellular microscopic imagery.
But and this in an important but. The lack of clear referent always stops you short of fixing your reading and before you know it you are drawing other associations. perhaps with landscape, or river systems as viewed from a plane and so your passage within the works continue without end.
It is this ability to take you, as a viewer on a visually transcendental journey that works so well for me, and that’s before you stop to consider the fact that these are extremely well executed paintings, done with, to use the Mike Kelley title: more love hours than can ever be repaid. ...
Tom Hackett is an artist and lecturer
For Interface a-n - full article link bellow -
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Continuum in Symmetry
Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham
... Marek's emphasis on drawing permeates the paintings, leaving traces of the decision-making process underlying each paintings' construction.
Serial circular arcs imitate and perfect a natural
curve of an artists' reach, with gestation periods between each decision point: like a time-line, accelerating and slowing. At times lines become dense: deliberated in twists and junctures.
Restlessly fluctuating they give a feeling of lightness and air, a three-dimensional nest-space.
Your eye dances with the changing directionality: parallel, divergent or convergent, implying perspective in silhouetted three-dimensional form.
Your eye dances not just across the plane of the painting but also backwards and forwards in the
three-dimensional area between you and the painting.
Continuum in Symmetry is a painting show that fits very securely into the realm of painterly painting,
and showcases Marek's work as studio-based investigation into painting process: an artist's artist.
... Marek's quiet paintings are indicative of a prevalent tendency towards honesty and beauty in painting now, away from showmanship, trickery and illusion.
Ruth Solomons is an artist based in London
Sym Tarpey Gallery Castle Donington
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