Mala Gallery, Warsaw, 8, Zamkowy Sq.
From January 5 to 29, 1999
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con amor para senorita Topo / with love for miss Topo
at the beginning all the flowers were beautiful women.
they didn't wear sashes. they had no eyes nor hair, hand nor feet.
they had only that, which was most important and that was the flower.back then nothing faded. nothing died.
Robert Stiller: "How the women began - Polynesian myth"
Maurycy Gomulicki in Mala Galeria, Warsaw
The triptych of Maurycy
It is important for a gallery to report about current work of its artists. This was a characteristic trait of the Mala Gallery from its very beginning and we still are trying to maintain this tradition today.
After two consecutive exhibitions of Maurycy Gomulicki in 96 and 97 (both were presented in the month of January) we present his third exhibitions in January 1999. Apparently these exhibitions have nothing in common except the artist himself. The first of the exhibitions was a deceitful pondering upon "youth and death" and elusive beauty of the world. The second exhibition enriched with special sound composition of Robert Nizinski was a statement about "interchangeability of space". The current exhibition is an attempt to "seduce" our imagination by the way of photographed world of mannequins, the world of certain mystery and of symbolism not fully comprehended. This exhibition which completes kind of a triptych of presentations gives us better understanding of the direction of Maurycy Gomulicki's quest.
It is not difficult to notice that the focal point of the first two presentations was an attempt to find a language which would help to translate a world of forms and shapes into world of imagination and open interpretations of natural phenomena. The present exhibition is instead a search after a language that translates the world of culture. We are being confirmed by "sentimental typologies" to which Maurycy Gomulicki submits the phenomenon of mannequins - recalling associations with the prose of Bruno Schulz. "There, in the depth of the matter vague smiles acquire their form, tensions set up, attempts of shapes condense"*. That is what Bruno Schulz writes in his "Treatise on mannequins". This "condensation" is also apparent in the work of Maurycy Gomulicki. Such a world created in pre-war eastern Little Poland can be discovered 70 years later on other hemisphere in Mexico. It will still fascinate us with its amibiguity. And will enable us to introduce order into the world of forms and shapes once more. With a burden of everything what happened in the time between.
Marek Grygiel
* Bruno Schulz "Proza", WL Krakow, 1973
Maurycy Gomulicki in Mala Galeria, Warsaw
Maurycy Gomulicki in Mala Galeria, Warsaw
Maurycy Gomulicki
b. 1969
studies: 1987-92 Faculty of Graphic Arts, Warsaw Fine Arts Academy 1992 diploma: etching - prof. Rafal Strent
anex: painting - prof. Jerzy Tchorzewski1992-93 Facultat de Belles Arts, Universitat de Barcelona 1994 Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Mediolan 1997-98 Centro Multimedia del Centro Nacional de las Artes
individual exhibitions: 1989 etching, club SGPiS, Warsaw 1990 drawings (with G.Batiz and J.Slazak),
Museum of Warsaw Fine Arts Academy, Warsaw1991 Qui e Altrove - etching (with S.Kroszczynski and P.Nizinski),
Saletta della grafica, Vittorio Veneto1992 paintings, presentation, Centre for Contemporary Art,
Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw1994 paintings and stones, installation, Centre for Contemporary Art,
Ujazdowski Castle, WarsawSuck of the eye, that is to say about strengths,
slide show, Cinema Theatre Tecza, Warsaw1996 Glass Spring, photography, Mala Gallery ZPAF CSW, Warsaw 1997 Swimming lessons, Mala Gallery ZPAF CSW, Warsaw Sequences in color, FF Gallery, Lodz New adventures of Mary the orphan or fulfillment of the dreams, CSW Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw
Maurycy Gomulicki in Mala Galeria, Warsaw
Maurycy Gomulicki in Mala Galeria, Warsaw
Opening party in "Mala Galeria" in Warsaw on January 5th, 1999.
See also:
- M. Gomulicki: "Swimming lessons" - in Mala Gallery (1997) (CCA)
- M. Gomulicki: "Vaginets" - MetaBody project (CCA)
- Other exhibitions in "Mala Gallery" as presented in fotoTAPETA
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