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Continuum - Hive Gallery Barnsley

CONTINUUM at The Hive Gallery - Reviewed by Mik Godley For NVA - full article link below -
"I�m no formalist, and I have little appreciation for �process art� if that�s what this is, so for the last twenty years I�ve often wondered �what on earth is Marek up to � painting circles all the time?� Frankly, such a practice would drive me nuts. More recently though, I think I�m beginning to �get it�: both the motive and making of Marek�s marathon graphite drawings presented as the focus of his current show ..."

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Continuum in Symmetry
Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham


... The more you look at them, the more these gently curving intersections of line start to�propose�multiple possibilities. They appear suggestive of the human body, both in its exterior outline and like internal anatomical images of convoluted veins and intestines.
... But and�this in an�important but.�The lack of clear referent always stops you short of fixing your reading and before you know it you are drawing other associations.
... It is this ability to take you, as a viewer on a visually transcendental journey that works so well for me, and that�s before you stop to consider the fact that these are extremely well executed paintings, done with, to�use the�Mike Kelley title:�more love hours than can ever be repaid. ...

Tom Hackett
artist & lecturer - article bellow

Continuum in Symmetry
Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham


... Marek's emphasis on drawing permeates
the paintings, leaving traces of the decision-
making process underlying each paintings'
construction. Serial circular arcs imitate and
perfect a natural curve of an artists' reach,
with gestation periods between each decision point: like a time-line, accelerating and slowing. ... CiS is a painting show that fits very securely into the realm of painterly painting, and showcases Marek's work as studio-based investigation into painting process: an artist's artist.

... Marek's quiet paintings are indicative of a prevalent tendency towards honesty and beauty in painting now, away from showmanship, trickery and illusion.

Ruth Solomons
artist, curator & writer based in London

Sym Tarpey Gallery Castle Donington