The book sums up 15 years of the artist’s creative work. Since the end of the 90s, he has been merging painting with video projections and urban space. In Dominik Lejman’s art, a specific oscillation between determinants of the white cube of a gallery and the black box of a cinema occurs – painterly, architectural and cinematographic qualities interact and exchange places – wrote Łukasz Ronduda.
The publication is accompanied by a specially-created website, www.paintingwithtimecode.com where one may watch the films discussed in the album.
Lejman’s creations are aesthetic statements about the place of an individual in contemporary society, an individual that loses his or her individuality in the anonymous crowd, becoming part of a statistic. An individual described by statistics becomes a part of a multiplied equation, and appears as an element of an ornament of the complicated matter of contemporary civilisation – wrote Ewa Gorządek in the artist’s bio.
In the book one may find 130 illustrations complementing the artist’s commentaries and the statements of other creators. The publication also contains essays describing Lejman’s art which were written by great figures from the world of art: Doris von Drathen, Anda Rottenberg and Timothy Persons. The album was published by the prestigious publishing house Hatje Kanz with support from the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Berlin gallery Zak / Branicka.
"Dominik Lejman: Painting with Timecode"
Publisher: Hatje Cantz, 2014
Texts: Doris von Drathen, Timothy Persons, Anda Rottenberg
ISBN: 978-3-7757-3813-2
Sources: Zak / Branicka Gallery, culture.pl, own materials, edited by: Agnieszka Sural, 28.07.2014
Translated by: Marek Kępa