Education
He studied visual arts at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (2009–2011).
He studied visual arts at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (2009–2011).
Born in 1987 in Lublin, Poland. From 2007 Martychowiec has been creating number of topical photographic series, as well as video projections and extensive installations using diverse media: photography, film, drawing, installation, neon, objects. From 2010, he has been working on various opera productions, creating installations, which are specific reinterpretations of time and space, and incorporate different media.
Recent projects include ones for Poznan Opera House (Poland) (multi-channel video installation).
Artist’s practice is a means by which to explore, by alternative means, philosophical ideas that complement his research. He applies notions of Eastern philosophy with a direct reference to the European aesthetics.
He is concerned with historic phenomena brought into contemporary contexts, through creation of which he questions and reinterprets existing forms and ideas. His work is characterised by minimalistic aesthetic.
A series Destination: The Magic Mountain was first to clearly indicate his direction, it became part of an exhibition Awake and Dream at Palazzo Doná in Venice, headquarters of Signum Foundation.
Following the exhibition a project commissioned by the foundation - Documentation was created and followed by 3 exhibitions, 2 of them accompanied Art and Documentation Festival and Międzynarodowy Festiwal Fotografii FotoFestiwal (International festival of photography in Lodz) while the other was shown in the place of the project"s creation: Palazzo Doná. The latter project is one from the series of documentations of considerable problematic exhibitions, where Martychowiec raises an individual dialogue with history and art At the same time, Martychowiec is collaborating with number of niche fashion magazines and other commercial publications including European Vogues, Glamour and Vanity Fair creating, directing and projecting photographic fashion series.
