Jacek Tylicki



Jacek Tylicki (born 1951 in Sopot, Poland) is a Polish artist who settled in New York City in 1982. Tylicki works in the field of land art, installation art, and site-specific art. His conceptual projects often raise social and environmental issues.

Works
Starting in 1973, Tylicki began sending sheets of canvas or paper into the wind, rivers, or forests and leaving them for a long while in a natural environment, thus forcing upon nature an attitude previously reserved to the artist: the creation of forms. The project is often called natural art.

In the years 1974–1990, he initiated the idea of an anonymous artist by issuing a periodical called Anonymous Artists where artists could present their art without revealing their own names. In 1985 he created an installation called Chicken Art. Tylicki transformed the Now Gallery in Manhattan to a hen house in which live chickens watched realistic paintings of chickens, chicks and roosters hanging on the gallery walls. Tylicki declared:

"For a chicken the most beautiful is chicken."

Another installation was the Free Art, where Tylicki invited well-known artists, including Mark Kostabi and Rodney Alan Greenblat, to give away their art to the public for free. Video and photography play an important role in his work as a record of its elusiveness and transience.

In 2019, Tylicki and his daughter, Michelle, created "Art Wars" a street art performance in London. It was a recreation of Tylicki's performance in the East Village in the 1980s.

Exhibitions
Tylicki has exhibited his work internationally; a selection of group shows include: Land Art Mongolia Bienalle, Gobi desert, Mongolia (2016); Mananchira, Calicut, India (2015); Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków (MOCAK), Poland (2013); Dublin Biennial, Ireland (2012); Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland (2012);

Solo exhibitions include: those at Galerie Kanal 2, Copenhagen, Denmark (1980); Galeria BWA, Sopot, Poland (1980); Galerie Sudurgata 7, Reykjavik, Iceland (1980); Gallery 38, Copenhagen, Denmark (1979); Galeria Sien Gdanska, Gdansk, Poland (1979); Galerie St. Petri, Lund, Sweden (1979); Galeria Akumulatory 2, Poznan, Poland (1979);Galerie Sudurgata 7, Reykjavik, Iceland (1979); Gallerie Porten, Lund, Sweden (1976); BTJ Gallery, Lund, Sweden (1976)

Collections
Bunkier Sztuki Collection at Gallery of Contemporary Art, Krakow