A Cyclograph (Mth)

Decyk specialises in photography, installation, video. He studied at the Slavonic Department, Complutense University of Madrid, and at the Photography Department, Poznań Academy of Fine Arts. He is employed at the Photography Department, University of Art in Poznań, where he runs the 3rd Photography Room (together with Professor P. Wolynski.) Many of his images and productions "revolve" around the sun. He refers to one of his series as Cyclographs. The works are traces of the sun captured through a hole made in a rotating disk. The uniqueness of the camera system, designed by Decyk especially for this purpose, lies in the non-conventional combination of the rules governing the operation of an optical dark room and a clockwork mechanism. The image appears after several days of exposure directly onto photographic paper. The artist has participated in over 50 national and international exhibitions, notably in Australia, Canada, Germany, Slovakia and Spain.