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Polish/Canadian Artist Andrzej Maciejewski Presents Garden of Eden at the Camerawork Gallery in Portland

PORTLAND, OR.- An interesting photographic exhibition titled “Garden of Eden”, by Polish/Canadian artist Andrzej Maciejewski, will take place in the Camerawork Gallery in Portland, Oregon from August 20th to September 23rd, 2011. Garden of Eden is a series of still-life photographs, inspired by classic old masters paintings, but showing our modern fruits and vegetables from supermarkets, with PLU stickers or plastic wraps on them. This project is an invitation to the reflection on our attitude towards the nature, on the direction in which our civilization is going and on our way of looking at the reality. One of the interesting features of the project is the mixture of modern and traditional (or even outdated techniques) that were used to realize it. The photographs were taken with 4×5 view camera on colour transparencies and developed in the darkroom. After that they were scanned and the prints for an exhibition