Jerzy

Kałucki

For I am a seeker of the philosopher's stone, and this stone, after all, should be a simple thing, and at the same time full of magical power - like a spell1 - this is how Jerzy Kalucki described his work in a conversation with Bożena Kowalska. In his works, the most important are two that enter into a constant dialogue of quality: nature and geometry. As in the real world, in Kałucki's artistic reality the symbiotic connection between nature and geometry reveals the creationist influence of one on the other.

Ascetic means of expression and color patches enclosed in geometric contours - sometimes contrasting with each other - become the center of the picture's nascent story of creating a structural abstract form, the completion of which takes place in the mind of the viewer.

1 Statement by Jan Kalucki. Bożena Kowalska Spaces of Jerzy Kalucki, Warsaw 2006; p. 50.


Exhibitions
2018 Collective exhibition "After Cybis", "Zachęta" Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2016 "Art in our age." Rafał Dominik and Szymon Żydek and the Zachęta Collection, "Zachęta" Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2015 Collective exhibition "Truth, Beauty, Good", "Zachęta" Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2013 "Przebiegi", Starmach Gallery, Krakow, Poland
2010 "Jerzy Kałucki - new paintings", Zderzak Gallery, Krakow, Poland
2008 "Periscope", Zderzak Gallery, Krakow, Poland
2007 "Categories of space II - in the field of constantly repeated issues" - BWA Gallery, Katowice, Poland
2006 "Jerzy Kałucki - painting" at the Gallery of the Artist's House, Warsaw, Poland
2001 "Jerzy Kałucki. The point of intersection ”, Starmach Gallery, Kraków, Poland
2001 Locus Odenthal at Forum Ost-West, Dobeln, Germany
2000 "The space is described by a straight line and an arc. Painting, graphics, objects ”- Museum Modern Art, Sammlung Jurgen Blum Hunfeld, Germany
1996 Fragment, Arsenal Gallery, Białystok, Poland
1993 “Beyond the First”, Potocka Gallery, Krakow, Poland
1991 "Identity", Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
1990 "Introduction to imaginary space", Galeria Depolma, Dusseldorf, Germany
1987 Freiraum - Vier Generationen konstuktivistischer Stromungen in der polnischen Kunst, Kunststation Kleinsassen, Germany
1986 The Mirror, Edmonton, Canada
1986 "Area / Image", Studio Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
1971 The 5th Art Exhibition of the "Golden Bunch", BWA Gallery Zielona Góra, Poland
1970 "Arch section with radius r = 1970 cm" Krzysztofory Gallery, Krakow, Poland
1965 "Young Painters of Krakow", Palace of Art in Krakow, Krakow, Poland
1962 Artists from Poland”, Grabowski Gallery, London, UK
1961/1962 "Painting Exhibition - Polish Work of Art in the XV-PRL", National Museum, Warsaw, Poland