30x40cm, watercolor on paper, 2022r
Born 24.10.1966 in Bialystok.
Graduate of Bialystok University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning and the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw.
He cultivates:
watercolor painting - architecture and landscape,
Acrylic painting - landscape and abstraction.
He has exhibited his works:
2021 - Sleńdzinski Gallery in Bialystok, The place of man versus the territory of the artist - author's exhibition,
2020 - grant from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage for the dissemination of culture on the Internet - Culture on the Web.
The name of my project: The place of man and the territory of the artist.
2019 - WOAK (now PIK) in Bialystok, Territory - author's exhibition,
2019 - Museum of Nature and Forestry BPN in Bialowieza - solo exhibition,
2019 - XXI Interprovincial Watercolor Exhibition, Rzeszow - honorable mention,
2019 - PSPiA Klanza in Białystok - individual exhibition,
2018 - XX Interprovincial Watercolor Exhibition, Rzeszow - award,
2017 - XIX Interprovincial Watercolor Exhibition, Rzeszow - honorable mention,
2016 - XVIII Interprovincial Watercolor Exhibition, Rzeszow - award,
2016 - Museum of Nature and Forestry BPN in Białowieża - exhibition,
2015 - 8th International Biennale of Teachers' Creativity, Tarnów - award,
2015 - Labyrinth Art Gallery MOK in Zambrow, watercolors and acrylics - exhibition,
2015 - Sokól Cultural Center, watercolors - solo exhibition,
2015 - WOAK (now PIK) in Bialystok, watercolors - individual exhibition,
2014 - XVIII Provincial Review of Amateur Art Creativity - award,
2013 - Small Gallery APK in Augustow, watercolors - individual exhibition,
2013 - Beside Gallery in Białowieża, watercolors - individual exhibition,
2012 - XVII Provincial Review of Amateur Artistic Creativity - award,
2012 - WOAK (now PIK) in Bialystok, watercolors - individual exhibition.
Krzysztof Chyży about his work:
Drawing
The first drawing remembered as the beginning of artistic (plastic) interests. My first means of expression.
The first technique and direction of further exploration. Home drawings and works that were created in art classes in elementary school.
Drawing, so I believe, is the basis of all artistic activity. To master drawing is to give the imagination the right tool to create. Through drawing, I learned how to properly look at and transfer the world to paper.
Good drawing?
You have to forget that drawing is just lines.... It's density, pressure and different surfaces.
Watercolor
My journey with watercolor at first was done alone. I had no teachers. But slowly painting with water paints turned into watercolor. It's painting without a chance for changes and corrections. Professionalism in watercolor is created by controlling the intertwining of circumstances that occur between paint and water.
Watercolor in my life is related to architecture. Painting sketches made in art classes.
Technique used to give architectural designs and complete assignments such as architectural history.
Suitable for stopping the cityscape on paper.
What, in my opinion, is important in watercolor?
To choose the color for the water.
Acrylic
Oil painting is too slow for me. This is because of watercolor. That's why I associate oil with constant corrections. Nothing wrong with that. It's just that what's the point?
I don't like to sit on a painting for a long time. For me it is a record of the moment, the transience of everyday life, the passing of our thoughts.
Each amendment, successive repainting, especially after leaving the work for a long time is for me a cheat, adding already outdated thoughts and actions and impressions to the original project, idea and then important composition of my thoughts.
The reason I like acrylic is that it has the possibilities of watercolor. Because I can combine paint density and solubility in one work.
To create contours with a haphazardly stopped pigment. Within the boundaries I set. In my works painted in acrylic with charcoal and graphite - drawing technique is an additional element of creation.