ABOUT EXHIBITION

We invite you to the opening of Marek Kusia's exhibition 'Moduł obecności' (The Attendance module), 15 October 2025, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

The exhibition will run until 8 November 2025.

The exhibition is curated by Jan Trzupek.


For forty years, Marek Kuś has been recording successive images with a sign – as he himself describes it – 'a module of man in space'. This motif takes two forms: a static, spindle-shaped figure with hands raised above the head or captured in the dynamic movement of a 'swimmer'. The subtle, nuanced distinction between the figures and the background, achieved by tracing their surfaces in different directions with soft and hard graphite, becomes legible in the reflections of light falling on the board-paintings. The figures – sometimes larger, sometimes smaller – are arranged in a clear, geometric grid, while at other times their concentration is denser only in certain areas of the metallic, shiny, silvery board-paintings. The forms and sizes vary: those drawn on flat plates or loosely arranged on canvas, silhouettes cut out of sheet metal – comparable to the size of a hand, concrete sculptures frozen in forms dug into the ground – already exceed human scale.

'There is a humility in these images, characteristic of copyists in medieval scriptoria. There is harmony and order,' I wrote years ago, 'the open composition makes them frames of a homogeneous vision of reality, becoming a story about existence in the cosmic plan.' To this day, the repetition of rhythms, like a mantra or litany, remains unchanged, their music embracing infinite space and time.

The subtle play of light remains unchanged. In recent years, Marek Kuś has opened another chapter in his 'Book': alongside the graphite figures-signs, those special 'letters', yellow, blue and red figures have appeared. In this way, the artist further emphasises the spatial depth of the planes. Now, one could say that the artist has broken this light in a prism into a Mondrian-like triad, while remaining on his own, unchanging artistic path.

Jan Trzupek