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| Dawid Czycz - Golden Years: Are You Ready? - Shefter Gallery, Krakow |
Dawid Czycz - Golden Years: Are You Ready?
Shefter Gallery, Krakow 12.09.-28.11.2020
concept of the exhibition: Mariusz Horanin
curators: Agnieszka Gołębiewska and Mariusz Horanin
Golden
Years is the latest series of paintings by Dawid Czycz, a pictorial
story about our present.
An
era of excessive virtual stimuli.
A
world flooded with the colourful light from LED screens, where the
ability to respond simultaneously to quick messages has become a key
competency for survival. And they are a fantasy of our globalized pop
culture.
It’s
an artistic look at the Zeitgeist and lifestyle of today. Probably at
our future twenties, too.
But
everything in its order. And the various threads must unfold
simultaneously, like the narrative in Dawid’s
paintings.
Dawid
Czycz’s art employs the language of emoji and memes, or quick
visual messages, which have taken over our digital communication in
recent years.
And
with artistic virtuosity, he has created his own imaginary realm out
of them. This is painterly figuration par excellence. Brave new
worlds which are born from an intuitive response to real and virtual
stimuli.
In
this process of artistic creation, the artist always follows his
imagination: the imagination of an artist living in an era of digital
communication and globalized pop culture. We have all come to love
emoji, memes and GIFs – they’re just a click away and able to
cheer us up instantly. But in Dawid Czycz’s work this joy is always
critical of the world, which has turned before our eyes into a
colourful pop culture world with liked promises of happiness.
Dawid’s
paintings tell of contemporary feelings of danger and our white-hot
emotions.
At
the same time, there is a desire to show beauty, an intention
expressive of the greatest madness of our times: if our world has
become terrible, it should at least look beautiful.
Drifting
in the virtual ocean, we try to find the balance necessary to survive
in today‘s world. Our lifestyle is a continuous puzzle: everything
keeps falling apart and rearranging itself, and it’s up to us to
put it all back together. We are helped in this by simultaneity and
multitasking: the ability to respond rapidly to multiple stimuli and
run many narratives at once. Just as with the simultaneous narratives
in Dawid’s pictures.
For
his dynamic compositions always retain a universal harmony. And, like
smartphone screens, they glow with LED light, which has rendered our
reality unreal in recent years. After
all, we are living in the era of the LED Baroque.
Welcome
to Golden Years!
Mariusz
Horanin
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| Dawid Czycz - Golden Years: Are You Ready? - exhibition view - Shefter Gallery, Krakow - photo Rafał Korzeniowski |
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| Dawid Czycz - Golden Years: Are You Ready? - exhibition view - Shefter Gallery, Krakow - photo Rafał Korzeniowski |
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| Dawid Czycz - Golden Years: Are You Ready? - exhibition view - Shefter Gallery, Krakow - photo Rafał Korzeniowski |
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| Dawid Czycz - Golden Years: Are You Ready? - exhibition view - Shefter Gallery, Krakow - photo Rafał Korzeniowski |
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| Dawid Czycz - Golden Years: Are You Ready? - exhibition view - Shefter Gallery, Krakow - photo Rafał Korzeniowski |
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| Dawid Czycz - Golden Years: Are You Ready? - exhibition view - Shefter Gallery, Krakow - photo Rafał Korzeniowski |
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| Dawid Czycz - Golden Years: Are You Ready? - exhibition view - Shefter Gallery, Krakow - photo Rafał Korzeniowski |
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| Dawid Czycz - Golden Years: Are You Ready? - exhibition view - Shefter Gallery, Krakow - photo Rafał Korzeniowski |
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| Dawid Czycz - Golden Years: Are You Ready? - exhibition view - Shefter Gallery, Krakow - photo Rafał Korzeniowski |
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| Dawid Czycz - Golden Years: Are You Ready? - exhibition view - Shefter Gallery, Krakow - photo Mariusz Horanin |
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Dawid Czycz - Golden Years: Are You Ready? - exhibition view - Shefter Gallery, Krakow - photo Mariusz Horanin
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| Dawid Czycz - Golden Years: Are You Ready? - exhibition view - Shefter Gallery, Krakow - photo Rafał Korzeniowski |
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| Dawid Czycz, The United States of Happiness, oil on canvas, 150x230cm, 2020 |
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| Dawid Czycz, Are You Ready?, oil on canvas, 150x200cm, 2020 |
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| Dawid Czycz, Pain Killer, oil on canvas, 125x160cm, 2020 |
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| Dawid Czycz, Sons of Anarchy, oil on canvas, 130x165 cm, 2020 |
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| Dawid Czycz, Afraid of Everything, oil on canvas, 100x130cm, 2020 |
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| Dawid Czycz, Time For Crime, oil on canvas, 100x130cm, 2020 |
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| Dawid Czycz, Share Your Anger, oil on canvas, 85x125cm, 2020 |
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| Dawid Czycz, All The Best, oil on canvas, 85x125cm, 2020 |
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| Dawid Czycz, Just Do It, oil on canvas, 100x130cm 2020 |
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| Dawid Czycz, Time Is Passing, oil on canvas, 120x150cm, 2019 |
