Richard GRZYB (b. 1956), A candied mustache waved by some dog, 2022

acrylic, canvas, 60 x 80 cm;
signed, dated and described on the reverse: Ryszard Grzyb / "Candied / mustache waved / dog some" /.
60 x 80 cm / acrylic / 2022.

Ryszard Grzyb, painter and poet, whose debut
artistic debut was in the mid-1980s.
One of the founders of "Gruppa", editor of the magazine "Oj
Well Already." In the 1980s he was associated with the expressive
current of new figuration. At that time he created so-called
so-called "papers" - large-format works made with gouache,
works sometimes with ironic overtones. An absurd
tone also characterizes the painter's later compositions created
in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the artist
returned to his traditional technique - oil painting. Then
also appear more and more daring color combinations, which
evolve in subsequent years to contrasting colors and the motif of
animals: rhinos, rabbits, turtles.
Since 2004, the artist has been running a project called "Overhead Sentences."
in which he presents short poetic phrases in public spaces.