Tomasz Tatarczyk, HILL. FOREST LINE, 1990

50,0 x 120,0 cm - oil, canvas signed p.d.: TATARCZYK

On the reverse: TOMASZ TATARCZYK | 1990, up arrow mark above.



In 1989, art critic Tomasz Rudomino wrote the following about the artist's work: Tomasz Tatarczyk's paintings appeared in Polish art in the 1980s. Alongside the unbridled New Wave, in the thicket of forms and styles, on the ground of the academic tradition of New Figuration and the debuting Transavangarde, the proposals of the Warsaw artist breathed freshness, a breath of natural simplicity and a certain artistic consciousness that was not widely known. And at the same time, against the background of the work of the young '80 generation, which escapes into complicated symbols, Tatarczyk demonstrated an attitude in which fascination with nature prevails over a contemplative, artificially bred way of reproducing it. We should add that Tatarczyk's attitude is also characterized by humility, an absolute acceptance of the laws of nature, laws that are not so much universal, but clear and verifiable, such as light, darkness, sun, snow. (...) The mountain appears in Tatarczyk in a hidden way. Its shape and silhouette is covered by a dense forest. The forest (...) is very important and has its consequences in other cycles, where it also appears.

The motif of the mountain, framed similarly to the image presented with us, is also present in Tatarczyk's other works from the second half of the 1980s and early 1990s, such as Black Hill (1986) and a painting of the same title from 1989. The monumentality of the hill is conquered in them by the luminous streak of the setting sun. As in all the best paintings in Tatarczyk's oeuvre, what is striking here is the strength and accuracy of the stark simplicity with which the artist captures his chosen motif.

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Tomasz Tatarczyk (Katowice 1947 - Warsaw 2010) studied from 1966-1972 at the Warsaw University of Technology, then from 1976-1981 at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he received his diploma under Prof. Jan Tarasin. From 1980 to 1986 he worked as a teacher at his alma mater. During martial law, he joined the independent art movement, exhibiting in churches. Since the mid-1980s, he was associated with the Foksal Gallery in Warsaw, had several solo exhibitions there, and participated in group presentations organized by the gallery, such as "4 Foksal Gallery Artists", Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh 1985, "Dialogue", Moderna Museet, Stockholm 1985 and others. In the years 1987-1988 he was a scholarship recipient of the Kosciuszko Foundation. In 1990 he won one of the awards at the 15th Festival of Polish Contemporary Painting in Szczecin. Tatarczyk's painting is focused, economical, based on single, clearly exposed motifs and a narrow range of colors.