Maria Kiesner: Essays
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Study of light
It is a house unlike any other. Or rather, it is three houses in one, joined by a common façade. Large windows – from the garden, and from the front, a row of small windows, like in a factory.
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Boring postcards or factory areas. In the margin of Maria Kiesner’s exhibition
Maria Kiesner paints non-existent cities and landscapes – if you consider a cityscape veduta as such. Their archetypes are usually old postcards, a stretch of street that is long-forgotten or has been altered beyond any recognition, a corner post office building, steelworks that used to be modern at the beginning of the 20th century – the focus is always on the whole thing, not details.
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The Street
Alas, this is where we would live, where we would shout and burn tyres. This is where we would die, without a complaint, from a weltschmertz – a sentimental pessimism woken up by the overdose of cheap booze.
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The architecture of Utopia
Maja Kiesner was brought up in the Warsaw district of Targówek, living in a thirteen-storey block of flats. She could see another such thirteen-storied block through her second-floor window.
