Janusz Lesniak : "Cien w krajobrazie"
PF Gallery, Poznan, November '97
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A moment like this...



Janusz Lesniak's exhibition titled "Shadow and landscape" brings photographies taken at Elzbieta and Krzysztof Penderecki's park in Luslawice- Zakliczyn, near Tarnow.(southern Poland).
 

THERE is a moment during a sunny day when I know, that after taking the camera into my hand, "lesniaks" will appear.

This condition comes without any special reason, it can also appear as if summoned by impatiently awaiting a thing well known, but unpredivtable and driven by its own laws.


 

 

 
 Amidst a languid, lazy afternoon, my dance with light and shadow suddenly begins. A true race against time in changing scenery.

At one moment, from a multitude of elements, a picture emerges - the one. It is mine. In a moment it’s gone, because what was light becomes shadow, which unexpectedly turns into a bright beam.

After a while, a rhythm establishes itself, common for the perceived and the perceiving. Pictures pass from one to another more fluently, without the initial nervousness.


 
The sun, the god of photography, the creator of all this, is starting to set. Twilight falls, cooling a hot head, and I am thinking about the few things that have slipped away from me and which it would be good to repeat tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Well, yes, but I know that it is impossible.

Even over the shortest period of time something changes. A trivial detail changes everything, the whole set. Even the air vibrates in a different wat and the beams of light have a different energy. And I was still somebody else yesterday.


 

 

 
 After many, very many moments like that, when I felt the uniqueness of a moment with similar intensity, I started awaiting next ones, expecting their exceptionality.

And once it came upon me to ask a question : is worth living to make photograph...

Janusz Lesniak
August 1997


 

Galeria Fotografii PF

Gallery manager: Janusz Nowacki
Assistant Manager: Malgorzata Abramowska
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Janusz Lesniak ul. Czarnowiejska 89, 30-049 Krakow
tel. (48 12) 634 0075

born 1947 in Kraków
member of ZPAF ( Union of Polish Art Photographers) since 1977
17 one-person exhibitions in Poland, Italy, Canada took part in several dozen group exhibitions in Poland, Austria, Brazil, Czech Republic, France, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and Great Britain.
Works in collections of :
Museum of Modern Art in Lodz, Poland National Museum in Wroclaw, Poland Historical Museum in Krakow, Poland Centre of Photography in Geneva, Switzerland Museum of Fine Arts in Huston, USA Museum of Civilisation in Hull, Canada Museum of Modern Art in New York, USA Bibliotheque National de France in Paris, France Collection of Polaroid in Cambridge, USA

also in private collections in Poland, Austria, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, USA and Great Britain.

17 one-person exhibitions in Poland, Italy, Canada took part in several dozen group exhibitions in Poland, Austria, Brazil, Czech Republic, France, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and Great Britain.

Works in collections of : Museum of Modern Art in Lodz, Poland
National Museum in Wrocław, Poland Historical Museum in Kraków, Poland
Centre of Photography in Geneva, Switzerland
Museum of Fine Arts in Huston, USA
Museum of Civilisation in Hull, Canada
Museum of Modern Art in New York, USA
Bibliotheque National de France in Paris, France
Collection of Polaroid in Cambridge, USA
Juz sie wystawia "poborowyczh"

also in private collections in Poland, Austria, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, USA and Great Britain.


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