Andrzej Berezianski from Poland is currently visiting Galerie S:t Petri in Lund, where he is presenting, until June 14, 1980, a series of “mechanical drawings” created with the help of carbon paper and an automatic drawing technique. The drawings were made without his conscious choice. The idea is clear, the paper is chosen, the method likewise – but the creative process itself happens by itself, mechanically. It is the moment’s impulse that determines how the drawing comes into being.

Andrzej Berezianski sees his hand as part of a biological machine (the body), within which reactions occur that he considers unconscious and automatic. The drawings are the result of such biologically dependent movements. These artistic “exercises,” as Andrzej Berezianski calls his works, help him to move forward in creating other images. Each time he sets out to test a new method. In this way, his experiment is never completed but is an ongoing process. Perhaps one day someone will create “the great artwork.”

In the exhibition at Galerie S:t Petri, the method itself has come to the forefront. He has not previously shown this newly developed medium – the drawings acquire a four-dimensional character by using carbon paper placed between the original drawing and the copies, which are then further processed. It is an entirely new graphic method, distinct from the experimental techniques used in art during the 1970s (for example, xerox).

Andrzej Berezianski has been engaged in these “artistic exercises” since 1970. He continuously generates changes in lines in an eternal process – the mutability of life itself. This is his first exhibition in Sweden.