events main gallery | 14.12-20.01.08

Jacek Rykała — A Lost Paradise? — the retrospective exhibition of this outstanding Silesian artist

publications catalogues/books | 2007

catalogue ‘Jacek Rykała — A Lost Paradise?’ The retrospective catalogue of a renowned Silesian artist, which presents a cross-section of the artist's works completed within the last 30 years.... 

‘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 printmaking of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, graduating from it in 1976. He is a Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. He took part in over 20 solo exhibitions and over 120 group exhibitions at home and abroad. His activity in the field of theatre includes being a playwright, director and stage designer.

Jacek Rykała has bound his creation with Silesia for ever. He looks for poetry in the traces of existence of old people and time-worn buildings and gates, confronting these keepsakes with everyday requisites recorded on old photographs... He records the reality and colour of urban landscapes of the Basin and Silesia. A nostalgic, forgotten world of mysterious courtyards and backstreets, gates, and peeling walls and fences is marked with the stamp of passing by. Old window frames, gate planks door pieces, door plates and numbers, old photographs and other details are highlighting everyday life and realism of those places that are incorporated in the painting works of the artist.

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