Jacek RYKAŁA (b. 1950), "Inventory. From the series 'Backyards'", 1982

oil, collage, canvas, 34.5 x 46 cm,
signature and author's description on the back, on the upper loom strip: Jacek Rykała "Inventory" 1982, oil, collage / (sosnowiec address of the artist).
The above painting was obtained by the present owners directly from Jacek Rykała.

Painter, draughtsman, associated with the artistic community of his native Sosnowiec and Silesia. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, at the Department of Graphics in Katowice, where he received his diploma in 1976. Since 1976 he began teaching at the same academy and led the Studio of Painting and Drawing. In 1996 he received the academic title of professor. The artist does painting, drawing and is involved in poetry. He has had more than 60 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 250 group exhibitions at home and abroad. He had a retrospective exhibition at the National Museum in Cracow. Eight television films have been made about his work. He has received numerous awards and honors, including the Gloria Artis silver medal awarded in 2011. The artist is the author of paintings-objects, combining painterly landscape, photography, everyday objects, from which he creates a metaphorical space, set in a sense of melancholy and abandonment.