Art Galleries in Tychy

Tichauer Art Gallery located on the area of the Civic Brewery must be the most well-known art gallery in the city. The gallery is located in an extremely atmospheric building that used to e a was part of the production complex of the former brewery. The building dates back to 1897.

We were glad to visit a photo exhibition on te first floor. It ws a photo exhibition of Marcin Kydryński called “Lisbon: A city of music and love”. This is what the artist himself wrote about his photographs represented at the exhibition.
“At the beginning of February 2008, and therefore exactly fifteen years ago, I came to the White City for the first time and stayed there. It was the city of light, music and the beauty of people. Lisbon was then a half-forgotten corner on the edge of the continent. It lived at its own pace. It did not want to keep up, change, dress up for just a few newcomers. And the newcomers were looking for what is permanent, something that exists for eternity. Fifteen years. It turned out that it was a long time ago. The world has accelerated like never before in its history. Even Lisbon decided that it had to put on a festive outfit, start smiling but half-heartedly. Some houses were demolished. Hotels were built. The honey light of the lamps was changed to hospital white bulbs.
A quay was created, at which ships are great as cities. Thousands of tourists are squeezed from them into the narrow streets of Alfama, like barbaric hordes. I had to be a witness and chronicler of this change. Photographs that I represent today were created several years ago. They invite you for a nostalgic walk. The city of these frames no longer exists. Although it comforts a great stoic that there is no loss, there is only a change, it is still a pity. I miss the old Lisbon. I still remember the city as a place of love and music. Longing is a proper feeling. After all, this is the concept of "Saudade" of melancholy, without which a man cannot be happy. And Fado music, which, like no other, talks about what is inevitable. I invite you to meet the Lisbon of years ago.”

Tichauer Art Gallery, Tychy

Works of Marcin Kydryński, exhibition called “Lisbon: A city of music and love”.

We also saw another exhibition of modern paintings on the ground floor. The exhibition in what they call the Magical Space of the Tichauer Art Gallery represented the most prominent representatives of the surrealist trend: Olbinski, Sętowski, and Kukowski and was called Space Full of Imagination. The artists presented their works that make us reflect on the fascinating possibilities of the human mind and the unlimited imagination of artists. It turned out to be an inspiring journey into the world of fantastic visions and dreams, represented in the language of painting and sculpture.

Tichauer Art Gallery, Tychy

Tichauer Art Gallery, Tychy

Tichauer Art Gallery, Tychy

Visiting Obok Art Gallery, Tychy

The OBOK Municipal Art Gallery is another art gallery in Tychy. It began its activities within the framework of the activities of the Small Theatre on June 3, 1994, and later mover to Andromeda Culture Center in Bachynski Square. The gallery has focused on the presentation of outstanding contemporary artists implementing what they call the interdisciplinary projects with the participation of leading experts and lecturers.

The gallery aims at increasing competences in the reception of contemporary art, epecially imong children and young people.
We visited "Dynamics of Events" Exhibition at the OBOK Municipal Art Gallery. We saw an exhibition of photographs of Maciej Długaj and the works of ceramics created by Adam Sobota. Maciej Długaj is well-known for his unique ability to capture fleeting situations in black-and-white and color pictures of streets. We saw his exceptionally colorful shots of everyday life on the Cuban street.
Adam Sobota offers the viewers disturbing ceramic forms, the base of which is a vessel. The author obsessively looks for an element of chance in his works. In the initial phase of the creation of the work, he uses a potter's wheel, building the foundation of the vessel, after which he allows himself an expressive gesture of destroying the form, which thus becomes unique and unrepeatable. Choosing the right enamel and metal elements of the composition are the culmination of the expressive form.

According to Dr.Katarzyna Hilszczańska, the dynamics of each individual photographic and ceramic form, filled with the energy of the moment and the potential for accidental uniqueness, simply explodes during a joint confrontation. Sobota's ceramic plates become a response to dynamic black and white photographs, and Dlugaj's colorful Cuban vision perfectly tackles the colorful form of ceramic vessels. Professor Hilszczańska writes further that Dynamics of Events exhibition became an excellent opportunity to juxtapose two different techniques, and two artistic media. She believes that this exhibition proves that the randomness and transience of time combined with the unpredictability of chaotic expression can meet and present surprising effects. Through this artistic correspondence, we witness an extremely interesting discourse between photography and ceramics in the light of a very unique expression of form.
We liked the comment of the art expert and the epigraph that was used to illustrate the approach to photography.

As we went windo-shopping at Gemini Park Shopping Mall, we discovered an interesting exhibition of amateur painters. The exhibition arranged by the City Cultural Club is called Window on Culture. The exhibition presents works resulting from classes held at the Urbanowice Culture Club.

The club helds art classes and DIY, where both children and adults have the opportunity to develop their passions in a very wide range of techniques related to art. They include artistic, drawing, technical, decoupage, robotics and handicraft activities. These activities enable the integration of emotions and the state of mind with the body, and relieve stress.

Tychy is a city where you can often find unique ceramic decorations on buildings erected in the sixties and seventies of the last century. We still call those ceramic decorations mosaics, even though the artists often used huge ceramic tiles in a very special way. The design of the tiles refers, on the one hand, to the socialist realism, and on the other hand, it brought the fashionable world trends of modern art to the then socialist city. The combination of these two elements is often called socialist modernism, or socmodernism for short. It gave a unique aesthetic effect to Tychy that can hardly be found in any other city. Fascinated with futuristic urbanism when looking at the mosaics, you feel the dynamism and the modern character of the city, the jazz sounds and even hippie colors. We have seen several nice mosaics on different buildings (and inside them) in Tychy. This one is on the library building at 5 Dabrowski Street:

This mosaics was created by Franciszk Wyleżuch in 1974:

Mosaics at the Technical School in Tychy

Mosaics at the service center in Dabrowski Street, Tychy

Mosaics on a pylon in Wyshinski Street

We noticed the above fine mosaics on the building of School 4 at 100 Bielska Avenue. Franciszek Wyleżuch is the author of this mosaics masterpiece. He created it in 1969. It used to adorn the ZEG building in District A, but was transferred to this new building later. It must be the city's only mosaics that had to be relocated.
There is another large mosaics of the same artist- Franciszek Wyleżuch - created in 1965 on the wall of the Maly Theater (District B):

This artist created several other mosaics, among them the well-maintained mosaic of Oskard Housing Cooperative in Henryk Dąbrowsky Street. It was designed by Ewa Surowiec-Butrym and made by Franciszek Wyleżuch. Franciszek Wyleżuch (born in 1931) is often called the artist who gave Tychy some color. He is is a versatile artist, and mosaics are one of his areas of activity. However, his art was so innovative that it was sometimes painted over, because the city residents did not agree to such a modern approach.

1969 graffiti by Franciszek Wyleżuch, Tychy