opening: Saturday, January 24th, at 7:00 PM
exhibition: 24.01-10.03.2026
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place: Galeria Piekary
ul. Św. Marcin 80/82
CK Zamek, Dziedziniec Różany
61-809 Poznań
exhibition open Monday – Friday 10 AM – 6 PM
admission always free
Piekary Gallery and 9/11 Art Space Foundation are pleased to invite you to the exhibition entitled Agata Przyżycka. There, the Delicate Colours Fade in the Sun
Agata Przyżycka’s painting weaves several parallel orders together: corporeal concreteness and dreamlike abstraction, photographic record and visual imagination, biological viscosity of matter and the rigour of formal composition. The title of the exhibition, borrowed from poetry by Halina Poświatowska, sets its tone and shows the path of interpretation. It intimates that for the poet and the painter alike, sensuality remains the supreme category, while a painting or poem usher in an intense, physical experience of the world..
From the outset, Przyżycka’s work has developed at the intersection of two disciplines: photography and painting. The photographic medium serves as a starting point—a source of forms and an impulse to pursue further transformations. Abstracted from photographs, fragments of the human body are deformed, duplicated and rearranged in a collage, only to be transformed on the canvas into pulsating, biomorphic structures. This hybrid approach yields a coherent, multisensory code in which both media function as equals, while meaning and significance remain fluid, multi-layered and open.
The soft tonal transitions, gradients and illuminated planes create an aura of pastel ecstasy. However, the candy-like aesthetics and decorative appeal of the artist’s paintings prove to be deceptive. Beneath the surface of delicate colours lies a certain biological concreteness: the bodies leak, stick together, lose their contours; they are lustful, greedy, passionate. They manifest their materiality. The tangled forms on the canvases often resemble landscapes: waves, mountain ranges, complex organic structures. In both Poświatowska’s poetry and Przyżycka’s painting, nature bears witness to and partakes in corporeal activities. Identification with nature dissolves the opposition between the human and the non-human, between physiology and landscape. Here, love and sensuality are not a metaphysical rapture but an immanent movement of matter. Even so, the artist’s work defies being classified as a purely sensual-emotional paradigm. It is at once lyrical and conceptual, seemingly chaotic, yet deeply aware of form and its internal logic. Compositional discipline—the rhythm of repetitions, the order of arrangements and the precision of representations—coexists with radical intimacy and an orgiastic surfeit of matter.
There, the Delicate Colours Fade in the Sun is a story about the body as the only proof of existence—a tangible sign of presence in the world of light, colours and movement. The alluringly sensual and erotically candid nature of the images gives rise to vitality, acceptance and a more profound experience. It is a celebration of physicality; an appreciation of beauty and pleasure; a delight in loveliness; a luscious joy of continual being.
Agata Przyżycka
Born in 1992 in Toruń. In 2016, she defended her thesis at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, where she later obtained her doctorate. Agata currently works as an assistant lecturer at the Faculty of Painting. She has shown her work at solo and collective exhibitions, including such venues as Casa Hoffmann in Bogota, Kravitz Contemporary in London, Casa Museo Dimora Stephanus in Termoli, the Municipal Gallery in Wrocław and the State Art Gallery in Sopot. Her paintings may be found in the collections of the National Museum in Gdańsk and the Krupa Gallery, among others. She has been a finalist of numerous painting competitions and festivals and won multiple awards and distinctions, e.g. at the 6th Review of Young Art “Świeża Krew” (Wrocław, 2016), the 2nd Leon Wyczółkowski National Painting Competition (Bydgoszcz, 2016), the Wojciech Fangor National Painting Competition (Gdańsk, 2015) and the AleSztuka! National Painting Competition (Krakow, 2015 / Gdańsk, 2016).
