Robert Maciejuk. Day for Night

“Day for Night” is the name of a film technique where photographic filters and special lenses are (or rather were, in the second half of the 20th century) used to make daylight resemble night. The sets were all grey, but careful viewers could see that not all was as it seemed. The cloudless sky was too light, and shadows suggested the existence of some powerful light source. The night, though greyish, wasn’t a night at all.

At Zach´ta, Robert Maciejuk will show a series of paintings featuring motifs referring to the film set, to the sets of popular TV children’s stories that, however, have been deserted by their characters. Only the decorations are left: the fencing, a shack, a small house, a snow-covered tree. Those motifs are shown as if they have been processed using special filters and lenses. Repeated many times, they gradually fade, at the beginning differing only slightly from each other, until they become pointilistic images or coarse-grained photographic reproductions from an old album. Some of the motifs, repeated into infinity, grow out of the frame and no longer resemble the idyllic children’s-story decorations. A kind of “American night” in Polish painting...

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Robert Maciejuk. Day for Night
Kurator: Hanna Wroblewska