exhibition

Forsaken, Oil on canvas, 120 x 170cm (detail), 2005	Untitled, Oil on ply, 244 x 244cm, 2005
Polyptic, Oil on canvas, (detail), 2008	Arm, Oil on ply, 30 x 40cm, 2008

POLY (P) TYCH
SOLO EXHIBITION BY MAREK ZSYLER

Opening Night, Friday 7th April 2008, 6.30 - 8.30pm

POLY(P)TYCH is a series of paintings that investigate the politics of Identity through the de-construction of religious iconography, cultural mythology and personal experience.

Marek Szyler asks whether 'our identities are purely constructs of circumstance' (something that has evolved through life experience) and whether, indeed, 'there exists a core of self after these constructs are peeled away'? As such many of the works are self portraits showing the artist pared down and placed in the position of martyr or Adam and Eve and fashioned like a Byzantine icon.

The series is eclectic, agonizing, torturous but extremely well painted. The work is very much Marek Szyler, an artist who has spent his life painting murals and theatre sets for the likes of Chrissie parrot and Graham McLean ('Sound of Music'), as far afield as the U.K., Belgium and The Netherlands, biding his time until his first major solo exhibition, POLY(P)TYCH.

Opening times for the gallery: Tue/Wed 12-5, Wed/Thu 10-6, Sat/Sun 11-4.