Jacek Łydżba: Exhibitions
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May 2022
Love song
Jacek Łydżba loves, wants love, paints the hunger for feeling, paints the state of rapture. In each female portrait, he encloses a universe of feelings, experiences, promises. There are scores of female faces on the sheets of music, and each one is the face of a beloved, for whom the heart of the painter and the viewer beats.
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April 2014
The effects of colours
Stendhal syndrome is a psychosomatic disorder which causes rapid dizziness, heartbeat, confusion or hallucinations when a sensitive individual is exposed to works of art and architecture accumulated in a relatively small space.
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December 2011
Holy Mother!
Jacek Łydżba treats religious symbols without any rebellion, personal disagreement or excessive rigour. As befits a pure-blood artist, he has his own vision and his own expression. He takes those gypsum figurines and dresses them up with garments in strong and expressive colours, emphasising their beauty and kitsch.
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April 2011
Orbiting
For those who are seeking new places, experiences and heights. For art connoisseurs and party animals. Jacek Łydżba’s exhibition in Soho Factory – the trendiest destination in Warsaw’s Praga – is an invitation to enter an energetic orbit of painting. Łydżba seduces his audience with bold colours and a repertoire of his favourite motifs. This is going to be a gathering of gorgeous female cyclists, tamed wolves and cult aeroplanes. For one evening that huge post-industrial hall will be filled with paintings and Jacek’s male and female fans. The guests will also have a chance to enjoy beer and live music.
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November 2005
Provincial life
We long for provincial life: life that runs slowly, with quiet and unassuming happiness. Perfect provincial life exists in books by such authors as Bruno Schulz or William Faulkner. During a journey it may seem for a while that we see it from the train window.
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May 2002
Air show
Hawker Fury. The name was coined to add, or inspire, terror. In reality, the machine’s structure was tiny and rather delicate. The gentlemen who mounted it used to paint coloured chequered patterns on it. As if the plane was not supposed to fight, but rather, to race. These days, in the time of those flying buses, Hawker Fury’s shapely silhouette evokes nostalgic associations: with the ‘retro’ age indeed, the one of The English Patient, or, Farewell to Africa. But then, it did seem futuristic. Elegant, and cold. Pilots used to like Hawker Fury but treated it with respect, considering it to be an elitist plane.
