Cezary Kielar

I take pictures, draw and paint ...
At the moment I paint portraits, but there is a kind of ambiguity in it. The appearance of the figures has often symbolic value, so there are no faces, no eyes, they are "backside" portraits, there are not "real" portraits.
Painting is my language, though my paintings are based on photography. But it is very important that my work is "made by hand" and not only by hand - it involves everything in me: receptivity, feeling, thought, sensibility and the painting skill. The artificial image, as the photograph, is just really not sufficient for me to express the vulnerability of being. As I paint fairly intuitive, I newer know what will be end of the process. The formal solutions I choose for the images, are kept simple to intensify the impact. I'm deliberately "slowing down" formally, in search for the simple stable elements to facilitate sincere focus. I use quiet colors in limited palette to support the image and not to distract from it.

In the matter of fact, the paintings are about human condition, the essence of all creation.

That is how it is looks from my side, the other side of the painting's life is in the eye of the beholder.

1979 - '84 Study at the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland

Solo exhibiition
1987 Graphics and Drawings, Ars Polona Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
1987 Art and Art HOFKABINETT Linz, Austria
1985 Diary 1982 - Forma Gallery Warsaw
1984 Diplom - Modern Art Gallery Warsaw

Group exhibition
2013 - Incubarte Art Festival - Valencia, Spain
2013 - Portas Abertas - Fórum Eugénio de Almeida, Evora, Portugal.
2011 - 50 Jahre Druckwerkstatt im Schloss Wolfsburg, Germany
2004 - "Genius loci-100 years of Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw" Warsaw,Poland
2000 - II Bienal Internacional de Gravura - Olho Latino, Estância de Atibaia, Sao Paolo
1991 International Print Triennial Cracow 91
1990 "Polish Prints, A Contemporary Graphic Tradition": University of Wisconsin Stewans Point Carlston Gallery Stewens Point Wisconsin; University of Texas at Dallas; Haggerty Art Center Gallery, Dallas, Texas; Columbus Public Library The Columbys Art Gallery Columbus Nebraska
1989 "Polish Prints, A Contemporary Graphic Tradition": The Gallery of The Department of Art & Art History, Lincoln Nebraska USA: Washington University; School of Art Bixby Gallery, St. Louise, Missouri USA; The Print Club Philadelphia Pensylwania USA; Polish Museum of America Chicago Ilinois USA; The Polish Cultural Foundation Clark New Jers...