DAWID CZYCZ - GOLDEN YEARS
Curator: Mariusz Horanin
opening night 17.04.2020
Galeria 艢ladowski, Krak贸w
Dawid Czycz - Golden Years
Galeria 艢ladowski, Krakow - opening night 8 p.m., 17 April 2020
Exhibition: 17 April – 6 June 2020
Curator: Mariusz Horanin
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| Dawid Czycz in front of his painting"The United States of Happiness" 17.04.2020 |
We
have entered the 2020s. What will they be like? Certainly hectic,
like our world. Things are going to get even faster and louder. There
will be more of everything, packed ever more densely. We will fly at
the speed of LED light and send billions of emojis to each other to
convey billions of fleeting emotions. We will sooner make an endless
streaming show out of our pictures and videos than type in a single
sentence, because we prefer visual culture, and written messages have
become less necessary. Well, we may occasionally drop a worldwide
slang expression, but just for laughs. Humour is the best cure for
the sense of absurdity. Though, in fact, we adore our world of
globalized pop culture and keep liking its colourful promises of
happiness. But we will be increasingly short on time because we will
spend our real time responding to virtual stimuli. On top of that,
the Earth’s population will increase by another billion in the next
ten years, so things are probably going to get even more scary in
real life. But LED screens will render everything unreal and our
hectic world will look beautiful. Crazy beautiful.
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| Dawid Czycz, The United States of Happiness, oil on canvas, 150x230cm, 2020 |
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| Dawid Czycz, Liberty-Poverty, oil on canvas, 140x200cm, 2019 |
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| Dawid Czycz, Bad Year, Good Time, oil on canvas, 80x120cm, 2019 and Liberty-Poverty, oil on canvas, 140x200cm, 2019 |
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The
world has changed? Apart from shopping malls with their excess of
goods and ample opportunities for low-cost tourism, global capitalism
has provided us primarily with effective tools for virtual
communication, which we can consume without any limitations. So we
consume away! We drift in the virtual ocean of sensations, emojis and
breaking news, longing ever more strongly for a sense of harmony in
life. Digital culture has superseded its analogue counterpart, and
reflection has mutated into intuition. Still, we look
enthusiastically at the burning reality through the eyes aglow with
LED light. We have created brave new worlds. Our own simultaneous
worlds. After
all, we are living in the era of the LED Baroque.
Welcome to Golden Years! And Keep Smiling馃懝馃懝馃懝
Mariusz Horanin
Feels like slow motion, we're floating at the speed
Louder
Higher, higher, higher, higher, higher
It's like standing in the ocean
(Travis Scott - Skelettons).
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| Dawid Czycz, Error 404, oil on canvas, 60x40cm, 2020 |
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| Dawid Czycz, Sky Is The Limit, oil on canvas, 80x120cm, 2019 |
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| Dawid Czycz, Fever, oil on canvas, 120x160cm, 2020 and Flying High, oil on canvas, 60x80cm, 2020 |
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| Dawid Czycz, Are You Satisfied?,oil on canvas, 45x60cm, 2020 |
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Dawid Czycz, Are You Satisfied?,oil on canvas, 45x60cm, 2020 and Fever, oil on canvas, 120x160cm, 2020
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Dawid Czycz (1986) lives and works in Krakow. In the years 2002–2006 he studied at the J贸zef Czapski State Secondary School of Arts in Krakow. Graduate of the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow under the supervision of Professor Leszek Misiak (2011). He has shown his work in many solo and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad. Recipient of Honourable Mention at the Painting Biennale Bielska Jesie艅 2019. Dawid Czycz’s paintings create brave new worlds in which artistic imagination makes brilliant use of contemporary pop culture imagery. Both dynamic and harmonious, the compositions explore the moods and emotions in today’s world. A painterly revolution and lots of humour 馃帯馃椊馃彴馃懝☄️馃槇馃敟
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| Dawid Czycz, "Fever" and Mariusz Horanin |
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| Dawid Czycz, Flying High, oil on canvas, 60x80cm, 2020 |
