Marcin Jasik

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Wednesday, 04 September 2024

Marcin Jasik

Untitled, 2024

Acrylic, marker on canvas

190 x 190 cm

Marcin Jasik's abstract paintings carry their own visual literacy, which he then reduces through his own aesthetic filter to create a feeling of open spatiality. His canvases emit a sense of lightness in how he utilizes an effortless score of gestures and strokes through a series of applied lines and shapes to create a state of ocular tensions. Jasik builds up his reduced narrative by using thin layers of paint and acrylics to choreograph his own synaptic compositions in his visual pursuit of what’s essential, the essence behind what we see but feel. They represent his pursuit to form a new perspective on how to balance the material world with the spiritual.

Jasik’s canvases address his basic questions about the nature of human existence. His source for this internal inquiry comes from the Legend of St. Francis fresco by Giotto di Bondone from the Basilica of Assisi. Jasik abstracts the basic lines from the scene where St Francis renounces his earthly possessions. Jasik utilizes the horizontal division of St Francis’s action by combining it with his own interpretation, to create a visual dialogue between the secular (earth) and the sacred (heaven) in his attempt to capture the saint’s gesture.