We had the pleasure of showing the series Post Marta Zgierska at the Sintitulo gallery in 2016, on the occasion of her HSBC Award for Photography. This year, the artist accepted our invitation to present his recent work, by proposing “Blush”, an exhibition made of a selection of works from the series Afterbeauty and Votive Figure, some of which are shown for the first time.
In her (not so) counterfeit and perfect images in many ways, Marta never ceases to play her own role in her ceaseless quest for the more-than-perfect. When she wears the mask of this role to be played, she also plays mine and yours: all in search of this more-than-perfect against which ancient wisdoms would warn us…
Narcissism, complacency and fictitious identity: to say that the oracle had warned us… To which, Marta Zgierska naturally retorts: Blush. It is the title she has been giving to each of her recent shows referring to Afterbeauty and Votive Figure series. English words. All her series of images have as a title English words, full the meanings that show us the way Marta wants look at. Blush, in the language of Molière would describe the action of blushing under the effect of an emotion. We redden when shy or when confronted to pleasure. It is the involuntary make-up of our face reached by emotion but it is also the red blush, which in international language is called “blush”. It invokes not only the idea of a mask (the one of the makeup) but also the fact of implicitly mark this mask with the expression of the emotion itself – may it be shyness, pleasure, shame or other.
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_vues of the exhibition “Blush”:
_works from the exhibition
Marta Zgierska, Afterbeauty I, 2018
Photography – pigment ink print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Pearl, montage on Dibond, oak frame painted in a shade chosen in the colorimetry of the image.
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Format 40 x 28.6 cm – 1/3 edition; Format 150 x 107.2 cm – 3/3 edition of the large format available (editions 1/3 and 2/3, private collections).
Marta Zgierska, Afterbeauty II, 2018
Photography – pigment ink print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Pearl, montage on Dibond, oak frame painted in a shade chosen in the colorimetry of the image.
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Format 40 x 28.6 cm – edition of 3 ex.; Format 150 x 107.2 cm – edition of 3 ex.;
Marta Zgierska, Afterbeauty III, 2018
Photography – pigment ink print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Pearl, montage on Dibond, oak frame painted in a shade chosen in the colorimetry of the image.
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Format 40 x 28.6 cm – edition of 3 ex.; Format 150 x 107.2 cm – edition of 3 ex.;
Marta Zgierska, Afterbeauty IV, 2018
Photography – pigment ink print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Pearl, montage on Dibond, oak frame painted in a shade chosen in the colorimetry of the image.
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Format 40 x 28.6 cm – edition of 3 ex.; Format 150 x 107.2 cm – edition of 3 ex.;
Marta Zgierska, Afterbeauty V, 2018
Photography – pigment ink print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Pearl, montage on Dibond, oak frame painted in a shade chosen in the colorimetry of the image.
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Format 40 x 28.6 cm – edition of 3 ex.; Format 150 x 107.2 cm – edition of 3 ex.;
Marta Zgierska, Afterbeauty VI, 2018
Photography – pigment ink print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Pearl, montage on Dibond, oak frame painted in a shade chosen in the colorimetry of the image.
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Format 40 x 28.6 cm – edition of 3 ex.; Format 150 x 107.2 cm – edition of 3 ex.;
Marta Zgierska, Afterbeauty VII, 2018
Photographie – impression encres pigmentaires sur Hahnemühle Photo Rag Pearl, montage sur Dibond, cadre en chêne peint dans une teinte choisie dans la colorimétrie de l’image.
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Format 40 x 28,6 cm – édition de 3 ex. (Ed. 1/3, collection privée)
Format 150 x 107,2 cm – édition de 3 ex.
Marta Zgierska, Afterbeauty VIII, 2018
Photography – pigment ink print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Pearl, montage on Dibond, oak frame painted in a shade chosen in the colorimetry of the image.
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Format 40 x 28.6 cm – edition of 3 ex.; Format 150 x 107.2 cm – edition of 3 ex.;
Marta Zgierska, Votive Figure II, 2019
Photography – pigment ink print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Pearl, mount on Dibond, painted oak frame.
Editions: 5 copies in 80 x 57.2 cm format and 3 copies in 130 x 92.9 cm format.
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Availability: 80 x 57.2 cm 1/5 and 130 x 92.9 cm, 3/3.
Marta Zgierska, Votive Figure III, 2019
Photography – pigment ink print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Pearl, mount on Dibond, painted oak frame.
Editions: 5 copies in 80 x 57.2 cm format and 3 copies in 130 x 92.9 cm format.
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Availability: format 80 x 57.2 cm 1/5 and 130 x 92.9 cm, 1/3.
Marta Zgierska, Votive Figure VI, 2019
Photography – pigment ink print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Pearl, mount on Dibond, painted oak frame.
Editions: 5 copies in 80 x 57.2 cm format and 3 copies in 130 x 92.9 cm format.
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Availability: format 80 x 57.2 cm 2/5 and 130 x 92.9 cm, 1/3.
Marta Zgierska, Votive Figure VII, 2019
Photography – pigment ink print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Pearl, mount on Dibond, painted oak frame.
Editions: 5 copies in 80 x 57.2 cm format and 3 copies in 130 x 92.9 cm format.
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Availability: format 80 x 57.2 cm 2/5 and 130 x 92.9 cm, 1/3.
Marta Zgierska, Votive Figure X, 2019
Photography – pigment ink print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Pearl, mount on Dibond, painted oak frame.
Editions: 5 copies in 80 x 57.2 cm format and 3 copies in 130 x 92.9 cm format.
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Availability: format 80 x 57.2 cm 1/5 and format 130 x 92.9 cm, 1/3.
Marta Zgierska, Votive Figure XI – from the series “Votive Figure” 2019
Photography – pigment ink print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Pearl, mount on Dibond, painted oak frame.
Editions: 5 copies in 80 x 57.2 cm format and 3 copies in 130 x 92.9 cm format.
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Availability: format 80 x 57.2 cm 1/5 and format 130 x 92.9 cm, 1/3.
Marta Zgierska, Votive Figure XII – de la série “Votive Figure” 2019
Photographie – impression encres pigmentaires sur Hahnemühle Photo Rag Pearl, montage sur Dibond, cadre en chêne peint.
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Format 53,3 x 80 cm, édition 1/5, 2.200€ – disponible à la galerie Sintitulo en ce moment//
Format 86,6 x 130 cm Edition 1/3 – 3.800 €
Marta Zgierska, Votive Figure XIII, 2019
Photography – pigment ink print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Pearl, mount on Dibond, painted oak frame.
Editions: 5 copies in 80 x 53.3cm format and 3 copies in 130 x 86.6 cm format.
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Availability: 1/5 in 80 x 53.3cmformat and 1/3 in 130 x 86.6 cm format.
