Marcin Urbanowicz "Good morning, Poland"
exhibition 19.03 - 5.05 | Art Haven
meeting with the Author 14.04 | 18:00 | Expo Hall in Concordia Design
tickets: https://app.evenea.pl/event/887980-24/
The exhibition is posted, of course, at the Art Haven - the square between the historic Concordia Design building and the Baltic Sea. It can be viewed until early May.
The series "Province" is a documentation of the contemporary image of the space around villages and small towns. These are places far from big cities, often far from busy transit routes and expressways. Province is the areas on the margins, the roadside, it is also everything that fills the space between large centers - ordinariness and normality.
For several years I have been looking at the Polish province. The space I photograph never ceases to amaze me. Changes are made to make it better, simpler but also nicer. Often, temporary solutions grow into further layers and become a background for further changes. This is a space that is repeatedly recycled. On the buildings you can see successive layers of paint, changes of owners, and for me it is also successive decades of history. You can perfectly see the fashions and styles that have been arriving in the province of late. Sometimes I find myself in places unable to believe that I have not moved back in time.
My project, is also a journey through a map saturated with absurdity and ugliness. At the same time, it is a sentimental story about a world that is disappearing. There are almost no people in my photographs. The space itself already says enough about the inhabitants and users.
Marcin Urbanowicz - photographer from Lubliniec. He graduated with honors from the Fotoedukacja photography school in Katowice, and then from Press, Advertising and Publishing Photography at the University of Warsaw. By profession a graphic designer and photographer working with several marketing agencies, by passion a documentary photographer. His photographs have won more than 60 awards at Polish and international competitions such as: International Photography Awards, Leica Street Photo, Poland on the Street or Silesian Press Photography. In 2022 he was a Scholarship Holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Author of the photographic book , "Good morning, Poland".
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The event is organized thanks to funding from the City of Poznan's budget #poznansupports
