Projects

Urban Work

^Nicosia

The old techniques of painting have a lot to do with pure expression and personal way of seeing the reality. Painting can communicate the ideas well and build a new artificial structure or a proposal for the future. We can understand art as the act of significance, the act of manifestation of imagination which can create possible worlds.

My idea is to bring together in the artistic way the whole horizon of Nicosia this ancient capital city of Cyprus still divided into two parts. I have decided to work directly, painting the landscape-horizon from the highest building of the city to get the entire view of 360º. My proposal is to paint long horizon of the Turkish part of the city as well of the Greek one. So in the end we can have an opportunity to see whole city together, the global view, (180º+ 180º=360º). Even if is it just an imaginative artistic invention.

Installation in the process

Nicosia 360º Project / 2011/ installation 20cm x10m / oil on wood

Installation

^Melbourne

The impressions through frottages (rubbings) in role of the relief from certain deposits on surfaces of the soil of Melbourne. In this case, the artist rescues fragments of significant images of the city, which are located on the ground and are stepped on, places of transit, again, by thousands of people at all times, that have returned a look that can provide us with amazing references. This work also references earlier in the work of Piotr Perski, with his project about the inscriptions on the slabs of the floor of the cloister of the Cathedral (stones, 2000-2012) collecting frottages (rubbings) of reproductions of funerary inscriptions located the floor of the cloister of the Cathedral of Barcelona and at the same time he researches on the significance that they had originally. They are works of ephemeral nature but with a great poetic and evocative power.

The Streets of Melbourne / 2017 / frottage with wax pastel on paper

Melbourne frottages in progress

^{San Francisco}

Empremtes
Geras Tousignant Gallery
May 20th – July 3rd 2014

The project has grown from the idea of illustrating POEMARIO by Rafael Ruiz Fernández-Villalon. The author of the illustrations, who has been living and working in Barcelona for the last 15 years. When reading the poems, he found in them fascinating descriptions of trivial experiences of someone, who spent his whole life writing about them. As Piotr Perski says: "The project has been unfolding and has now overstepped the pages of the anthology. The traces (impressions) have multiplied, creating constellations of planets in rectangular and square shapes of large dimension, always accompanied by drawings of people, animals, trees, balloons or ships."

While visiting San Francisco the artist has gained new experiences of a traveller and decided to reflect them in a new series of prints. In this recent work one can see his observations regarding nature, life and universal human interrelations, now in their American shape.

In the context of the presented work, the fingerprints become little worlds where things happen, where people settle and live. Impressions have acquired another symbolic meaning that is no longer the unique, unrepeatable touch of the fingers. It has become a space for recreating other worlds, other lands, experiences and sentiments that form our life.