Michael Staniak: Oxide Paintings

In occasion of his online exhibition “En Plain Écran” Michael Staniak presents his last body of works.
In a contemporaneity where our connection with alterity is constantly filtered by a screen, Staniak’s body of work questions our relationship with the natural world through the significance that the act of painting assumed across the years. Impressionists saw technology as an impulse to establish a direct and first hand relationship with the surrounding landscape, focusing on the creative process while trying to capture the instantaneity of a new rapidly changing historical period. Similarly, Staniak’s research, aware of the weight that new technologies have on our perception of images and nature, dwells on the exploration of organic elements and examines how we can reconcile with the natural realm.