Jacek Tylicki
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Jacek Tylicki is an American artist. Tylicki was born in Sopot, Poland, lives in New York.
[edit] Creatives in 1974
Natural Art originating directly from traditional painting experiments made by Jacek Tylicki, based mainly on Kandinsky idea of abstract art and corresponding to Jackson Pollock - abstract expressionism as well as to Marcel Duchamp approach to art brought Tylicki, in the first half of the seventies of the XXth century, to a certain conception of the aesthetic experience created by Nature only - painting with Nature - using Nature as a painter - The Natural Art. It can also has been considered as "The new Ethos of Art".
Tylicki writes in his catalogue to an exhibition in Gallery 38 in 1996 - Copenhagen: "The Universe is the greatest piece of art"
Created: Forest, between fallen trees, South Sweden,
17/08 - 29/08 1976
47,5 x 35.5 cm
Private Collection
Citation from Chrysippos according to Philo (De monarchia I, 215)
"Avoiding all control, I spread out sheets of white paper or canvas in the nature. For some time they stay in the grass, in the rushes of river, in the meadows or in the mountains. Nature registers its presence, covering the surface of the paper with a scale of colors, forms, tracks.
This process is controlled by a number of agents; such as space and time, substance and causality. It is governed by nature's intensity. It does not, than, depend on man's interference.
The papers or canvases, I'm collecting, are superior in form to any form created by a logical mind. Nature is the greatest and most admirable creator, unlike logic it doesn't fail.
The artist obligation is not to shape - handicraft, but to take a researcher's position - an attitude that aims at an understanding of the riddles of reality.
In such conception of Art there lies, as in the Universe itself, an immense richness, a countless variety of forms."
During Tylicki's art-globe-trotting those artworks were created in Sweden, Denmark, India, France, Poland, Spain, Sri Lanka, Nepal, USA, Polynesia and are continuously created in places of his visits. A consciousness that such exercises can be developed into a numerically infinite series of esthetically fulfilling paintings was a consciousness of an achieved limit, which was not negated by the success that Tylicki's creations met in the gallery. Mastery within this conception threatened painting by transforming the creative space into a deadly routine at a more or less adequate standard. To overstep this limit only became possible by changing the painting paradigm. From this reflection was born Natural Art. An art movement related to Land art and Conceptual art.
[edit] In 1987
 Chicken & Art Now Gallery New York 1987 |
"For a chicken the most beautiful is chicken", declares Tylicki in his commentary on the project entitled Chicken & Art. To give this thesis - esthetic? philosophical? - a reality, he transforms the Now Gallery, which he runs in New York, into a henhouse. In the henhouse - as in any henhouse - there are live hens and chickens; but because it is now the henhouse-gallery (or maybe the gallery-henhouse...), there are paintings on the walls, paintings which represent, in a style of 'human' realism, a chicken's beauty: the elegant silhouettes, well-shaped plumes, exciting breasts, seductive dressing up in feathers. "To my mind", writes Tylicki "they ought to please the chickens".
