catalogue ‘Jacek Rykała — A Lost Paradise?’
year of publication: 2007
size: 28 × 23 cm
volume: 152 pages
edition: 800 pieces
binding: softcover with flats
reproductions in colour
languages: Polish/English
graphic design and typesetting: Ewa Prażmowska-Bekiersz, Bartosz Skwarek
publisher: BWA Contemporary Art Gallery in Katowice
ISBN 978-83-88254-46-8
Contents:
Jacek Rykała
Roman Lewandowski ‘The myth and the person, or an artist in the boudoirs and vestibules of the memory’
‘The concentration achieved thanks to something concrete’ Roman Lewandowski interviews Jacek Rykała
Painting
Tadeusz Konwicki ‘Sielec Quarter Prompts’
Maciej M. Szczawiński ‘Mitsou. The Metaphor of Melancholy’
Henryk Waniek ‘Jacek Rykała in the Orbit of the Truth’
Ola Wojtkiewicz ‘Smell of the Light’
Maria Fiderkiewicz ‘Mythical Adventure with the Memory’
Magdalena Hniedziewicz ‘The Returning Time’
Izabella Gustowska ‘Sielec Quarter Prompts’
Edoardo Sassi ‘Corriere della Sera’
Objects
Graphics
Theatre
‘The house to be knocked down’
‘The diary’
Biography
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Jacek Rykała — A Lost Paradise? — the retrospective exhibition of this outstanding Silesian artist ‘A Lost Paradise’ of Jacek Rykała presents a cross section of his output of the last 30 years. Jacek Rykała (born in 1950) studied at the faculty of...
The retrospective catalogue of a renowned Silesian artist, which presents a cross-section of the artist's works completed within the last 30 years.
“In the autumn 1977 I’ve got my first one-artist exhibition at the then very prestigious Katowice Gallery of the Union of Polish Artists and Designers, where Igor Neugebauer, its chief and a painter, used to present the most interesting artists from the whole Poland. I was very proud and satisfied, receiving the invitation from him only one year after my graduation. My exhibition was the sixtieth exposition at that gallery and I was lucky that the catalogue, of course black-and-white, was printed not as usual on poor-quality paper, but on chalk-coated paper which was left after the sixtieth anniversary of October Revolution. A few years later the BWA Contemporary Art Gallery in Katowice published my first full-colour catalogue, in the introduction to which Professor Andrzej Pietsch wrote, ‘…So, is it a paradise lost here? Can these documents of destruction, decay and decline — painted sometimes with a fierce bluntness — speak about the paradise? Those once useful objects, the remnants of which are the material of Rykała’s pictures, have always been mean, poor and far from paradisiacal splendours. And may be it’s a journalistic critic of the relics of the precedent era? Do these figures — quartered with the planks of benches, cut with old window frames or lost in cluttered courtyards — dream about moving to a flat with bathroom in an apartment block or about holding out their term on their old stamping ground?’
I still don’t know it, even though so many years passed…”
Jacek Rykała
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