Pawel TKACZYK (b. 1979), Untitled - Diptych, 2016

acrylic, canvas; diameter: 100 cm;
Signed and dated on reverse: P. TKACZYK / 2016.

Multimedia artist. Lives and works in Warsaw. He has been painting since 2008. He practices figurative and abstract painting. His works have been presented at more than twenty exhibitions moreover, he is the author of murals. Tkaczyk's paintings are in private Polish and foreign collections. Other artistic activities in which he pursues are photography and music.
Selected solo exhibitions: 2017 - Painting, Na Lato, Warsaw; 2017 - Photography, SNL Gallery, Warsaw; 2015 - Painting, Kuratorium Gallery, Warsaw; 2014 - Photography, "WAR/SAW" - gwl*, Warsaw; 2012 - Painting, "Atomic Freedom," SKWER, Warsaw; 2010 - Painting, Stair Gallery, Warsaw; 2010 - Painting, ArtTu Gallery of Fine Arts, Warsaw; 2009 - Painting, "Sublimations," Hotel Europejski, Warsaw; 2008 - Painting mural with Wilhelm Sasnal, OFF Festival, Myslowice.
Selected group exhibitions: 2016 - Photography, SORT BLAEK Gallery , Copenhagen, Denmark; 2016 - Project "Polarity" with Tobias Birk Nielsen, Copenhagen Fashion Week AW16, Denmark 2015 - Group exhibition - Photography, Festival Warsaw Photo Days; 2015 - Photography, 5. Opole Festival of Photography; 2015 - Photography, Fotofestiwal, Lodz; 2015 - Photography, Foto Art Festival, Bielsko Biala; 2014 - Painting, Kuratorium Gallery, Warsaw; 2013 - Painting, Kuratorium Gallery, Warsaw; 2013 - Painting Wawa Design Festival, SOHO FACTORY, Warsaw; 2012 - Painting, Warsaw Gallery Weekend, SOHO FACTORY, Warsaw; 2011 - Painting, fair, "Untitled", Rempex, Warsaw; 2011 - Painting, fair, ART INN, Warsaw; 2010 - Painting, Salon of Free Creativity DADA Gallery, Warsaw; 2009 - Painting, DIFFUSION OFF ZONE, Fashion Week, Lodz; 2009 - Painting, Flying Szu Szu Gallery, Kashanti Project, Warsaw.

"This is no different in the case of Pawel Tkaczyk's work, who decides to carry out his painting experiment, using the potential of zombie formalism. He plays with shapes and colors, forms and spaces, creating mottled, bizarre and therefore extremely fascinating paintings that torment the human eye without giving it a moment's rest. For Tkaczyk is not afraid to cross boundaries or break common rules. He paints in his own way, subjecting to artistic analysis whatever appears to him in his own over-stimulated imagination. The artist paints paintings that by their form resemble intense observation under a microscope.
Tkaczyk takes a slice of reality, applies it to his personal artistic slide and begins to paint what he sees at maximum magnification. His paintings are circular, which bewilders the viewer somewhat, accustomed to a completely different, painterly perspective. Tkaczyk loves to play with details. He paints colorful paintings, somewhat resembling a mandala in their shape, which reflect a feast of more or less real experiences of the artist, totally intoxicated by the vapors of the seductive medium of painting. Variety is Tkaczyk's trademark, and he knows how to surprise. Some of his realizations resemble the observation of a planet directly from the perspective of a state-of-the-art telescope, others the cracked shell of a snail, another the cellular structure of a yet-to-be-discovered plant species or, who knows, a zombie man, and another - mysterious structures directly associated with the deep, dark underworld. In time, however, the artist mellows - exhausted by intense observation, he creates a series of paintings in which subtle shapes dance and transform into a calm, but also visually extremely dynamic form, suggesting liveliness, supernatural activity."
(Zuzanna Sokalska)