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...........................................................................Maciej Rusinek

Born 1954 in Poznan (Poland), MA in theatre studies and Slavic philology. 1979-1986 worked with the Poznafl experimental ,,Eight-Day Theatre". Since 1987 lives and works in Frankfurt am Main (Germany).

His photographs appeared in many influential newspapers and periodicals, e.g. ,,Res Publica" (Warsaw) and ,,Czas Kultury" (Poznan). Pictures taken in Crete illustrate the volume of poems by Jan Kasper (Smierc wizjonerow, Death of visioners), published in 1993 by a Polish literary house.

In 1992 his works were awarded at the Leica Moments photocompetition organised by the trend-setting German monthly ,,MAX"; in 1994 he received a prize in the journalist photos category in the Third America Photo Readers' Contest.

Rusinek's artistic interests cover a spectrum spanning from landscapes to portraits. His personal, very emotional relation to music, theatre an various dance forms makes itself quite noticeable, too - his works vary from stereotype photos documenting performances an shows, as the artist concentrates not on taking pictures but on making them.

Of great importance in the creation of Maciej Rusinek's unusual photographic pictures is the use of the newest electronic technology for processing photographic material. Particulary the landscapes show the wide range of new possibilities, when an inkjet printer is being used for the print of information which was originally codified in a traditional Diapositivfilm. That is why Maciej Rusinek calls the final effect of his photographic searches ,,photoprint".

	Do look now When the couple in Nicolas Roeg's classic suspence tale ran through the streets a~piazzas of Venice, they hurried through W a town which was mysterious, oppressing, haunting. Maciej Rusinek's photographs show us Venice which is no less mysterious, yet we do not feel threatened by it - it is more of a secret than a mystery, a secret of its haunting beauty which we are allowed to share thanks to the artist. Rusinek presents the city's canals, lagunas, bridges and buildings, all almost devoid of people, lit by natural, diffused and misty daylight, sometimes illuminated by a solitary streetlamp, but still he manages to create an impression of a warm and welcoming place. It is no doubt a credit to his eye as well as to his technical mastery-the images, almost monchromatic yet, paradoxically, full of colour, remain in our rilemory and make us really want to look now - again and again. Grzegorz Sowula Exhibitons: Cafe Karin, Frankfurt am Main (Germany) Galeria Fotografi CK "Zamek", Poznan (Polen) Centrum Kultury, Jelenia Gora (Poland) Galeria ,,Punkt" GTPS, Gdansk, (Poland) Palais Jalta, Ost/Westeurop. Kulturund Studienzentrum, Frankfurt/Main (Germany) Art Deco Galerie, Poznan Galerie dell'Arte, Poznan Abendakademie, Mannheim (Germany)

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