https://www.synowiec.ca/963327201704 daily 1.0 2020-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604600999637-01D2DQFU9BT0L89VT7RR/Export-5.jpg WIP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604600999509-KN027DV3C137AZYJDV27/Export-1.jpg WIP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604600999053-XOR07MDX3BCWZ7NL8PDO/Export-3.jpg WIP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604600999378-H926Q7IGQRT2HK95JWUI/Export-2.jpg WIP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604600998003-4NQG441NRYQR8CTBETAQ/Export-4.jpg WIP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604600999098-YBHKI9521TIAR0N9U0PY/Export-6.jpg WIP https://www.synowiec.ca/706654388189 daily 0.75 2020-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604601418343-2SYQ9U0RKETL66ZMOYOF/Process-71.jpg About Representation Toronto - Mark Christopher Gallery Bart Synowiec bart@synowiec.ca Selected Exhibitions Photo La International Art Fair - Gallery on Wade, January 2015 Altered Passages - Mark Christopher Gallery, November 2014 Night and Day - Mark Christopher Gallery, September 2014 Systematic Compositions - Mark Christopher Gallery, November 2013 https://www.synowiec.ca/press daily 0.75 2020-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604601691087-1DIHQPW5ITBL2JXWS07K/GetAddictedTo-2.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604601678683-X3JMDEZ3RFTL233KUQ8O/Blue+Elephant.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604601710296-OCFZ76XJQ2OXOWFLJJRG/InkNoir.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604601705754-HIUT8NDMJC20E6NQ1MGC/Lost+Moorings.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604601713722-EEKQRJK3II3CDCB95J2R/Perfecto+Ambiente+-+ENG.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604601676197-9WWS6ISBNRMKZSLN3QO9/AtelierIvaan.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604601679144-4V6OQVYQIWIT0FV254R2/Ditched.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604601694725-ERJD1JF024FWD57ARHGA/Fubiz.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604601691806-2OPDYFBP421RP5KR8K7B/GetAddictedTo.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604601706229-O1R11J2EOVWYZP8TU8Q7/iGNANT.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604601693646-PODMZQ9FI6KBF75OHL5W/ilPOST.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604601712230-IHH1AP25UYO7U9BCMUY2/LiFO.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604601715448-ZIUC0SQSNQBTMFX756OW/LivingUntitled.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604601712797-YAM8YN1G78BUB0UMOEQV/MundoFlaneur.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604601714775-QUKXP7RR3ZXAWLOT3X0R/Perfecto+Ambiente+-+IT.jpg Press https://www.synowiec.ca/altered-passages daily 0.75 2020-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604599300836-XL3IGS6G4I29PHH5UF5E/Rocinha-Production-8-300x200.jpg Altered Passages ‘Altered Passages’ demonstrates Bart Synowiec’s distinctive approach to photography and representation. From the traditional qualities of his observations and subjective expressions to his explorations of the physicality of the photographs, the images of Altered Passages are realised through a very deliberate and literal construction of image and narrative, presenting a new direction in the photographer’s method. In 2013, Synowiec traveled to Brazil to document the favelas. His approach consisted of the token objectivity and preternatural sense for composition and restraint for which he’s known. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604599798998-5UR6T3PGS9OBYAUIJMY8/Rocinha-Production-3-200x300.jpg Altered Passages Returning from Brazil with strikingly beautiful pictures, Synowiec became aware of his power to distort through selection. His pictures altered the context; they would alter impressions in the viewer’s mind’s eye as well. He considered abandoning the project, concerned he may ‘trick’ viewers into extracting a false sense of peace and harmony and that these false feelings may come to be incorrectly associated with each location. The photographs didn’t convey the experience truthfully; they didn’t capture the atmosphere, the passers by – the locations’ lifeblood at the start and end of each day. It’s not that the images lied; it’s that they didn’t give a complete picture. Synowiec says: ‘I had predetermined the viewer’s misconception of these real living, breathing places. I’d chosen how [the viewer] would come to misconceive [these real places] as the experience of the work itself.’ And the power of an image increases dramatically when it’s the entirety of a viewer’s experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604599951985-ETOH8955V26H396WY3PB/Rocinha-Production-2-200x300.jpg Altered Passages Synowiec found new opportunities in the printing process, overturning the conventions of photography with extreme perspectives and distortion. He painstakingly created new narratives, guiding the viewer around an image in different ways by layering square cutouts of the image on top – a deliberate reference to the power of selection. “The images are quite literally of passages, that lead you in only one direction, but the direction is quite unclear and misleading,” Synowiec says. There is an emphasis on the process, on the reconstruction of each scene and on a physical connection to place and to subjects beyond. The work conveys the alienation of artist from subject, of the viewer from the bigger picture. The result is a viewing experience that is fragmentary, abstract. The photographer’s struggle as professional artist and prime mover is apparent. The series ambitiously asks viewers to consider the complexities in objectivity and balance, in this body of work and beyond. Copyright © Antoinette Di Michele, 2014. Images Courtesy of Feliks Gagula, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604600201715-18KX1CSU31J3TUYTS23H/Rocinha-3-web.jpg Altered Passages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604600202011-Q02A0DL3SPRC5STHAQQ5/Rocinha-4-web.jpg Altered Passages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604600201908-ZVWEWPTBBIC2B9E26YQV/Rocinha-5-web.jpg Altered Passages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604600202404-97FEWZKKT4JCTZ6Y8SNC/Rocinha-6-web.jpg Altered Passages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604600201829-ZANYSTXKVEP62OVYVIYM/Rocinha-1-web.jpg Altered Passages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604600201582-AWRJ4VLEESOHEBNT1V4H/Rocinha-2-web.jpg Altered Passages https://www.synowiec.ca/systematic-compositions daily 0.75 2020-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604600645953-VBIFH9CUF44ISLIH3230/SysComp-305x465.jpg Systematic Compositions Systematic Compositions are artful constructions of hypnotizing scenes depicting empires, as well as social achievements on a smaller, human scale, in a state of ruin. More specifically, these configurations come to represent very personal moments in the artist’s and viewer’s life when he or she wrestles with, or surrenders to, the impermanence of history, the idea of order and control as a social construct, and the fact of disorder, decline, and death. Photographer Bart Synowiec challenges viewers to make peace with disruptive imagery that captures the friction between opposing forces in a single moment in time. He constructs spectacles of destruction; he designs with discord, harnessing chaos with math, speaking of community with abandonment and loss, and addressing the intersection of artistic intent and viewer readings with respect and subtlety. Is there ultimately a feeling of harmony or distress? Where some feel Synowiec’s power to finesse our perceptions of structure and balance has a calming effect, others are more relieved by the spaces in which there is discernable disagreement with Synowiec’s attempt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604600553155-7XNRVJ2ZF5ZZ25U4X0Y2/Fort+Meuse.jpg Systematic Compositions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604600553094-VFB3QD97NRQ2G7RHI0DC/La+Bourse.jpg Systematic Compositions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604600552711-EZQTBIN5AUWSVJQTHL8L/Lecole+Labyrinthe.jpg Systematic Compositions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604600553566-DW1ACIW6SGIEWSLJZHBH/Punching+Through.jpg Systematic Compositions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604600552384-QNFMYW9GI7Z795Q0ES4R/Schools+Out.jpg Systematic Compositions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604600552869-UU810XVVNYUGTG21PRUU/Verriere.jpg Systematic Compositions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604600554860-9DE1X8X7BKLDEE3OT1BE/Coal+Breaker.jpg Systematic Compositions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604600555000-G98E50JN677HSOSEFNDU/Cooling+Tower.jpg Systematic Compositions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604600555365-TZ29M9IE2QXBP0B0AGU9/Curvy.jpg Systematic Compositions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604600555497-FEAXCMY28HMVQR9TJNTV/Farwell.jpg Systematic Compositions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1604600555589-O41IQ1WZ50C9XEJP40X7/Five+Twenty.jpg Systematic Compositions https://www.synowiec.ca/print-shop daily 0.75 2022-06-29 https://www.synowiec.ca/print-shop/architecture monthly 0.5 2022-06-29 https://www.synowiec.ca/print-shop/construction monthly 0.5 2022-06-29 https://www.synowiec.ca/print-shop/p/cookie-factory monthly 0.5 2022-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa433b5b9e9ac3424fd2643/1656528846183-PCFB3MWO8VLV2SRPUGCA/_NIK4413-Edit-2-Edit.jpg Print Shop - 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