Critics
On the artist
A selection of voices — art historians, curators and fellow artists — on Mariusz Zdybał's work.
Prof. zw. dr hab. Jan Wiktor Sienkiewicz
art historian, Nicolaus Copernicus University
Mariusz Zdybał is an artist whose work belongs to the current of magical realism, joining classical beauty with a metaphysical aura. His women — fascinating, as unfathomable as the cosmos — drift through fields, forests and meadows, visit the interiors of empty palaces, look at themselves in richly ornamented mirrors.
Prof. Mario Nicosia
Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome
Mr Mariusz's works are the result of a true creative vocation, of deep technical and artistic experience. The author creates fascinating figures filled with suggestive chromatic modulations and lyrical tensions that fully deserve the title of figurative painting of great value.
Adam Hanuszkiewicz
theatre director
I like Zdybał's paintings. Particularly the ones he builds with the senses, in which he is occupied with painting — and not telling us little stories, not even the mythical ones. I take them as an idea of a painting; I like the way they dissolve into the act of painting itself, and I like that we are left with the drama of forms, the luminosity of glazes, the dynamics of matter.
Katarzyna Napiórkowska
Napiórkowska Gallery, Warsaw
A femme fatale and a conscious temptress, a gentle nymph and a beauty fixed in marble, a cosmic lover and a saxophonist in moonlight: these are the women from Mariusz Zdybał's paintings. Unreal beauties present in underwater worlds, unearthly spaces and moonlit landscapes. This is a world of mysticism beneath the surface of reality.
Krzysztof Sztuciński
art historian
Viewing Mariusz Zdybał's paintings is usually accompanied by a subtle, hard-to-define tension. It is evoked by configurations — characteristic of his work, not present in the real world — of naturalistically rendered persons, objects and places. This conscious fusion of real and fantastic elements affects the senses and the imagination of the viewer more intensely than it does the intellect.