Viola TYCZ (b. 1973), Organix 6, 2024

mixed technique (acrylic, ink), HDF board, 59.5 x 59.5 cm, signed on the back (author's certificate of authenticity)

The painting series titled ORGANIX is created using elements of nature - leaves, branches, which are repeatedly reflected on the sub-image creating a rich painting matter. These meditative compositions are a kind of apotheosis of nature in a world where the industrial landscape dominates. It is a "rescue", a survival of nature. The colors were obtained by painstaking work, repeated acquisition of successive layers of natural elements, a kind of record, archive, storage of traces of nature, like a fingerprint in primitive caves.

"El Anatsui - a 79-year-old sculptor, born in Ghana, threads plastic waste onto copper wire. The whole thing looks soft and is easily assembled. Anatsui and his assistants have been weaving "wall sculptures" from recycled materials in this way for 24 years, often using motifs from traditional kente fabrics. As if to say: you have covered Africa with garbage. How would you translate it? ??There is some wisdom in El Anatsui's work, and I have found many similar fabrics online. He reiterates that an artist should use the materials he has around him. " / after Mariusz Szczygiel/.

I used in my latest painting series not waste, but organic parts of nature, which serve as a matrix for me. I draw from what is around me. I write down the artifacts of nature and leave their imprint, creating a composition. I use a brush in a limited way. It is the prints of the nervous systems of the leaves that leave the painterly matter on the sub-painting.

Born in 1973, she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland and was awarded a scholarship from the Joan Miro Foundation/Spain. Her works are in the collections of, among others, the National Museum in Warsaw, the National Museum in Cracow, the Contemporary Museum in Wroclaw and private collections. In 2014, the artist's paintings were auctioned at Christie's Auction House in London. Sotheby's Auction House funded a scholarship for the artist for her unconventional graphic techniques.

Major events:

2002 Poe-Art Center for Contemporary Art REAKTOR Wroclaw.
2002 Herzklekotten Scena na Świebodzkim Wrocław
2002 II International Biennale of Miniature Art Czestochowa Poland
2002 II Festival of Independent Culture Międzygórze Poland
2002 SPACE Festival Poznan Poland
2003 AFTER AIDS Entropia Wroclaw
2003 "I RAK / war exhibition" BWA Awangarda Wroclaw
2003/2004 Postcard from Wroclaw BWA Awangarda Wroclaw, BWA Bielsko Biala
2003 Middle age Pracownia na Ruskiej Wroclaw
2003 Pixeloza Powiatowa Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej Ostrów Wielkopolski
2003 Viola Tycz + painting + graphics + objects FORUM+ Gallery Wroclaw
2003 Viola Tycz PIKSELOZA Gallery of Contemporary Art ARSENAŁ Poznań
2003 36th National Competition of Contemporary Painting Bielska Jesien Bielsko Biala
2003 1st International Competition - Ex-Libris Exhibition, Ankara
2003 4th International Exlibris Exhibition Rijeka, Croatia
2003 International Competition of Drawing and Printmaking Museum, Taiwan
2003 PUZZLE4U Viola Tycz Foundation Pilar Juncosa&Joan Miro, Spain.
2004 Eurografik, Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2004 JAJO Gallery BB Krakow, Bytom
2004 Image of the Year Królikarnia Warsaw
2004 NOVA POLSKA Polish season in France ZOO Gallery Strasbourg France
2004 "Eastern European Printmakers" at The "Rensselaerville Institute" Rensselaerville, New York, USA.
2004 "Central and Eastern European Printmakers" at K. Caraccio Studio Gallery, New York, N.Y., USA
2005 "Eastern European Printmakers from the Collection of Marvin Bolotsky" at the Printmakers Society of New Jersey, USA.
2005, 2007 Trois-Rivieres International Biennial of Contemporary Printmaking, Québec, Canada.
2005 solo exhibition Sole Creature Epreuve d'Artiste Grafiekgalerie Antwerp, Belgium.
2006 Polish Eagles 2006 Korea Foundation Cultural Centre, Korea.
2007 Individual exhibition Ortona, Italy
2007 "PRINT- Internationale Grafiktriennale Krakau -- Oldenburg - Wien" Künstlerhaus Vienna, Austria
2007 Masters of Drawing and Printmaking Varosi Muveszeti Museum Gyor, Hungary
2008 Epreuve D'Artiste Antwerp, Belgium
2008 No Smoking Gallery Strasbourg, France
2008 Affordable Art.-Fair Paris, France
2008 International Biennale of Digital Graphics Museum of the City of Gdynia
2008 Child Adults Reed Factory Warsaw
2008 30th Anniversary of Entropia Gallery, Wroclaw
2008 Young Art Auction Desa Unicom Warsaw
2009 International Biennial of Contemporary Exlibris, Malbork
2009 Bosco Stregato 2009, International Exlibris Competition, Italy
2009 Forgotten Rooms Gallery at Jesuits Poznań
Awards:

2009 Third Prize Bosco Stregato 2009, International Exlibris Competition, Italy.
2008 Concorso Internazionale Exlibristico, Sculture e Brevi novelle "Il Bosco Stregato" distinction Solstizio d'Estate Bosia, Italy.
2007 Laureate of the MŁODA POLSKA scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage
2006 Artist of the Year in the poll of readers of ARTEON magazine.
2005 Jury Prize IV International MiniPrint Triennial, TAMA University Tokyo, Japan.
2004 First Prize Wroclaw Film Spring, Wroclaw, Poland.
2003 Honorable Mention of the International Graphic Arts Triennial, Kraków
2000 Honorable Mention 18th Festival of Contemporary Painting, Szczecin
1999 special award III International Graphic Arts Biennale, Gliwice
1998, 1999, 2000 - creative scholarship Competition American Retails System and Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw.