CYRYL  POLACZEK

Cyryl Polaczek’s paintings are a collection of images the artist feels compelled to paint, explored in a range of techniques. In some, paint is applied as a thick skin so that it can be manipulated by the artist to form wrinkles. In others marks shift in scale from sweeping large brushes and fine pointed lines. Polaczek explores new tools, such as his cat’s discarded whiskers to create these varying marks. The images themselves appear something between an intrusive thought and a wandering daydream, sometimes humorous in their comparison of objects, other times achingly observant in their consideration of something bigger. Scale is important in the context of the paintings, fly legs are swept up in eyelashes, which in turn flutter like book pages, a small boy crawls within the cavity of a woman's ear. In one work, a constellation of ‘cosmos’ flowers are set amongst the night sky, a lone dung beetle, traversing the jungle of flowers, uses the stars as a map to guide its way.

Born in 1989 in Zielona Góra. Studied at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (2008- 2010) and at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (2010-2014). Holder of Erasmus scholarship at the Universität der Künste, Berlin (2013). Winner of 11. edition of Hestia Artistic Journey (2013), residency in New York. Co-founder of Potencja Gallery and Potencja Film Studio, together with Karolina Jabłońska and Tomasz Kręcicki.