Robert Zytynski

Born in Walbrzych, Poland, in 1965 . Lives and works in Paris  website:  www.robertzytynski.eu

                             

  SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009         Emma Gallery , Paris. February, April

 2008        Paris, Gallery Iconoclastes - "Blues" November 28
 2008        London Gueguen Gallery ,Course of Life. October

 2008        Boxing, Arte Studio Paris                                                                                                                                                              
 2007        Commissioned for Murals (6 pieces of 18m x 2,5 meters) by the Quay Branly Museum, Paris                                                            
                 Hold Up paintings, Arte studio, Paris                                                                                                                                           
                 Fishing well, Iconoclastes Gallery , Paris                                                                                                                                     
                 Concerts and theatre posters, Arte Studio, Paris                                                                                                                          
                 Sharks, Arte Studio, Paris                                                                                                                                                            
2006         Jonek Gallery, Poland                                                                                                                                                                
                 Dolita Gallery, Quiberon , France                                                                                                                                               
2005         Ksiaz Castle, Poland                                                                                                                                                                  
                 Dolita Gallery , Quiberon, France                                                                                                                                              
2004         Atelier d un photographe, Paris
2003         Dolita Gallery, Quiberon, France
2002         Iconoclastes Gallery, Paris
2001         Quag Gallery , Paris
                 Walbrzych museum, Poland-Jonek Gallery, Poland                                                                                         

2000         Iconoclastes Gallery, Paris1998-2000    Penninghen school of Graphics Arts and Architecture, Paris
                 Diploma with honors

1992-2004     Arte TV Channel, Illustrator, Directing  TV packaging for Thema shows,1992 Centre National des Metiers de l image, Paris Gobelins- Video technician,1992 Group show at Fauchon restaurant, Paris. Hotel Drouot

About the Artist

His paintings tend to have a narrative dimension or scenario as he recreates a meaning from images he picks from his life. There is a sort of double entendre, a game played with humour to give us clues about the good and the bad of what he sees in life.
It is as if his paintings were trying to reach out to us through images, to get under the surface of reality. Who are these people? What are their desires and thoughts ?

Żytyński works intensively on his paintings. His brush strokes are energetic, fluid and rich. He enjoys a rich smooth paint sliding on the surface and that follows a rhythm and journey nearly like the sea mixing with sand at high tide.
He likes working on big surface and on several paintings at the same time. Technically, he has experimented for many years with different kinds of medium, with a preference for recycled paper: wall paper books, craft, advertising posters or any surface
that has lived before.

His sources of inspirations are various. His influences are from painting as well as graphism, literature and music. He has been influenced by Velasquez’s portraits, El Greco, emotional dramatic scenes and Flemish Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel. Collages from Hanna Hoch, Jerome Bosch German expressionists but also Polish Graphists like Waldemar Swierzy, Andrzej Klimowski, have all had their mark on the way Żytyński works.