Mala Gallery, Warsaw, 8, Zamkowy Sq.
From November 10 to December, 1998
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Aleksander Salij - Slady

 

Aleksander Salij - wystawa 'Slady'
Aleksander Salij - from series "Traces" - Mala Gallery, Warsaw

 

 

[L] IGHT constitutes the most important element of photography. This trite statement presents itself also when one looks at Aleksander Salij's photographs. The artist uses in his photography possibilities of manipulating shadows more than anything else. His pictures "reveal" individual structures and shapes creating thus mysterious and nondescript world. The photographer looks for his inspiration in his nearest surroundings. It may be botanical forms, architectural fragments or the artist's own body. Salij submits all motifs to a sort of analysis emphasizing interplay of shadows and light and strictly defined frame of picture that intensifies photograph's message. This way he creates his own microcosm that he incessantly interprets. These attitude is close to methods of analytical photography, but not that of the seventies which was examining the possibilities of the photographic medium. It is photography that is looking for its own truth by describing an object with intrinsic photographic method: use of shadow and light, revealing of hidden shape and generating thus reflections perhaps deeper than reflections upon objects and space alone.

Marek Grygiel

 

 

Aleksander Salij - wystawa 'Slady'
Aleksander Salij - from series "Traces" - Mala Gallery, Warsaw

 

 

Aleksander Salij - wystawa 'Slady'
Aleksander Salij - from series "Traces" - Mala Gallery, Warsaw

 

 

Aleksander Salij - wystawa 'Slady'
Aleksander Salij - from series "Traces" - Mala Gallery, Warsaw

 

 

Aleksander Salij
born 1942

Photographer, member of the Union of Polish Art Photographers since 1979. He photographs (since 1957), draws and paints. Interested in theory of art.

Studied Art History at the Lublin Catholic University. President of GRUPA V. member of Art Council of Union of Polish Art Photographers in Kielce. Participated in over 190 collective exhibitions. Winner of 50 prizes.

 

Aleksander Salij (left) and Marek Grygiel - show opening in Mala Gallery, Warsaw, on Nov. 10th, 1998

 

 


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