Szymon Ryczek Human as a being which has lost, rejected and found God

supervisor: prof. ASP Dariusz Kaca
Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz
Faculty of Art and Painting

biography

● Post-competition exhibition of polish printmaking collection from OSTEN BIENNIAL of drawing Skopje 2016, Osten gallery, Skopje, Macedonia 29.12.2016

●10th small graphic  form competition for students of Władysław Strzemiński's Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, post-competition exhibition, Amcor gallery, Łódź. 24.11.16 (Catalog)

Pokolenia | Łódzka Szkoła Grafiki, Student's and PhD student's of Władysław Stzremiński's Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź of printmaking exhibition, international Printmaking Art Center, Centrum gallery, Kraków. 14.09.2016 – 05.10.2016

● 2nd place in the 10th competition for the small graphic form for the students of the Władysław Stzremiński's Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, 04/07/2016

● Qualification for the final stage of the First International Biennial of Graphic Art in Xuyuan (China) 2016 03/06/2016

Eksperymentarium i goście, Student's exhibition of Władysław Strzemiński's Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, ASP Gallery. piotrkowska 68St. Łódź. 10.06.2016-31.06.2016

Artyści Konstantynowa Łódzkiego w ASP Łódź, group exhibition of graduated and actual students of Władysław Strzemiński's Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, OGRÓD SZTUKI gallery, Konstantynów Łódzki, 22.03.16- 29.04.16

● Winners exhibition of the 33rd Władysław Strzemiński's competition - Fine Arts, Centre of Art Promotion, Łódź. 11.03.2016

- The City Art Gallery award

- AMCOR gallery award

- POSpieszna gallery award

- RYBA cultural center award

- Artistic and Literary Quarterly ARTERIE award

Miesiąc Grafiki Łódzkiej, Student's and Pedagogues of Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź printmaking exhibition, Po 111 schodach gallery, MDK2, Lublin. 2.03.2016

● 9th small graphic form competition for students of Władysław Strzemiński's Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, post-competition exhibition, Pomiędzy gallery, Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. 01/02.2016

Wielodruk, Student's and Pedagogue's of Władysław Strzemiński's Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź  printmaking exhibition, Aula Gallery, University of Art in Poznań. 12.01.2016

● Władysław Strzemiński's Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź Chancellor's Scholarship for best students of 2015/2016

●  9th small graphic  form competition for students of Władysław Strzemiński's Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, post-competition exhibition, Amcor gallery, Łódź. 12.2015 (Catalog)

Eksperymentarium i goście, Student's exhibition of Władysław Stzremiński's Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, ASP Gallery. piotrkowska 68St. Łódź. 26.06.2015

● Student's printmaking exhibition of Władysław Stzremiński's Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Cottonhouse gallery, Łódź. 08.05.2015  

War has ended, but not for everyone, Student's and Professor's exhibition from Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Przystanek Historia Educational Center, Janusz Kurtyka's Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw. 7.05.2015

●  Student's and Pedagogue's exhibition from the  Fine Arts Printmaking chair of Wł. Stzremiński's Academy in Łódź, printmaking departament of Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. 29.04.2015

● Winners exhibition of the 32nd Władysław Strzemiński's competition - Fine Arts, Centre of Art Promotion, Łódź. 14.04.2015

- additional award

- RYBA cultural center award

- Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź college rector award

●  9th edition of Student's Printmaking Biennial ,  Arsenał gallery, Poznań. 31.01.2015 (Catalog)

- Award nomination

●  NEW PLASTERCUT, Printmaking exhibition, Museum of the factory, Manufaktura, Łódź. 29.01.2015 (Individual exhibition, Catalog)

Manufaktura – City within city, Group exhibition, Museum of the factory, Manufaktura, Łódź. 12.2014

● OSTEN BIENNAL OF DRAWING Skopje 2014, post-competition exhibition,  Macedonian Academy of Art and Science exhibit hall, Skopje, Macedonia, 19th of September

● 2nd International Mokuhanga Conference, Woodcut and artistic book studio student’s exhibition, Tokyo, Japan 10th of September 2014 

Human as a being which has lost, rejected and found God- it's a collection of five works made in relief-print technique (plaster-cut combined with woodcut). Works tells a story about a human being in its sin of mankind in the face of God. 

The lie of the piece of art often consists of fact that portraying evil is presenting more attractively than portraying good. Good on the picture can easily transform into shallow devotionalism. Authors goal was to attempt a creation, which any of his work would not boast nothingness, wanting to speak out against death with a praising song of God's creation. Author's intention was to show a sacred image in a different from the well known form, purposely showing specific bible scene in a new, unobvious at first glance frame, wanting to accentuate the mysterium of the scene.