Publisher: Published on the occasion of solo exhibition
at STRABAG Kunstforum Artlounge 
Vienna 2023, Austria

Texts: Andreas Hoffer, Paulina Olszewska
Design: Wioletta Kulas

Format: 205 x 280mm

Pages: 112 pages, Hardcover

Language: English, German

ISBN: 978-83-966973-0-1

His works emerge out of a consistent confrontation with the history of abstract painting since the beginnings of the 20th century, that is, the repository of knowledge around the formation of a pictorial structure without a symbolic narrative level. Thus, there are quotations in some of his works. Some of the form imprints and materials remind, for example, of the archaic picture compositions of the Catalan artist Antonio Tàpies. Marcin thus refers to the contemporary artist’s being embedded in the context of the history of painting, to his own preferences and to similar questions that preoccupy also his contemporaries.

Publisher: Milan Dobes Musuem


Ostrava 2021, Czech Republic

Curator: Lucie Drdova

Interviewed by: Kama Zboralska

Design: Wioletta Kulas

Format: 213 x 297 mm

Pages: 144, Hardcover

Language: English, Polish, Czech

Marcin Jasik’s canvases bear many parables and at the same time seek answers to the fundamental questions about the nature of human existence. Their abstract language is transcribed into an intuitive gesture, which, however, is guided by a conscious effort to approach or offer insight into the essential level of meaning of the artist’s paintings.

The relatively recent history of Jasik’s painting narrative begins with a series of canvases where he was inspired  by drawings of mentally ill people, their primitive language and a certain crudeness of unschooled expression. Yet here, for the first time, there are signs of a dualistic space between the sacred and the profane. The contradicting nature of visual values that the painter applies supports the content construction. On the contrary - motifs that appear to be formally contrasting seek unity. The tremulousness of white and dark shades, the basal nature of geometric shapes of blurred edges, the horizontal  as well as vertical division of the picture plan refer to  a higher order or belief in it.