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Michał Minor ‘Fear’ — exhibition as part of the 34th Ars Cameralis Festival
The foundation of Michał Minor’s artistic practice is the deconstructed and dehumanized space of the City, which becomes an impulse for activity in the aesthetic, symbolic, imaginative, and also political dimensions. With sensitivity and attention, the artist observes fissures and cracks, creases and folds, stratifications and all kinds of pores, from which emerge images, signs, and forms that do not represent the real world but rather create a gallery of deformed figures in masks. Shapeless, angular, ellipsoidal human figures that lack bodies, deprived of any interior space. What we see is stripped of purpose. Existence dissolves into a trembling wave of colors with a sharply defined graphic edge separating different forms of matter.
Minor discovers and interprets the world as a swirling score, dominated by a grotesque narrative that conceals a brutalized reality, where decorum consists of many elements bound together by a sharp palette of colors. For the artist, paint becomes a gesture and a reference to the world of mystery — an attempt to enchant a reality ruled by informational systems, engineering nano- and biotechnologies, and techno-shamanism.
In Minor’s world, the boundary between the human and the non-human becomes blurred. The artist employs a neo-expressionist gesture that enters the space of personal experiences, filled with references to music, literature, and film — into a realm of personal friendships and hatreds, fascinations and hostilities toward the world. As a result, we are presented with images in which, above the contours of a world grounded in the earth — the burden of our times, where sunlight and moonlight struggle to penetrate — a large question mark is suspended. On the other hand, we are drawn into the space of art, where the artist hides his fascinations within his paintings, seeking to create a mysterious, added layer of communication.
Marek Zieliński
Exhibition as part of the 34th Ars Cameralis Festival
More information: arscameralisfestiwal.pl
Curator: Marek Zieliński
Co-curator: Paweł Dusza
Opening: Thursday, 16 October 2025, at 6:00 p.m.
Admission to the opening is free.
The opening will be interpreted into Polish Sign Language.
The exhibition runs until 7 December.
MICHAŁ MINOR
Professor of Fine Arts. He paints, draws, creates graphic works, and designs posters as well as original typography. Between 2000 and 2024, he took part in around 220 group exhibitions and 22 solo shows in Poland and abroad. His works are held in museum collections and private holdings.
The protest against still water, which can be found within his paintings, is not devoid of nostalgia, humour, irony, and deep reflection on life. Minor paints works through which he continues to explore the same essential question — what is most important in life, that is, how to be a decent human being.
