SYNERGY | Andrzej Rysiński

SYNERGY | Andrzej Rysiński

Venue: Szewska 16 Gallery, 16 Szewska Str.
Opening: February 6, 2026, 5:00 PM
Duration of exhibition: February 6-25, 2026

Professor Andrzej Rysiński was born in 1958 in Warsaw. He is a graduate of the Warsaw School of Planning and Statistics. From 1984 to 1989 he studied at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, in the studio of Professor Tadeusz Dominik. Employed at his home faculty since 1990 as a lecturer, he has been running a painting studio since 2010. The artist’s creative activity encompasses painting, drawing, graphic art, and digital art.

The character of A. Rysiński’s painting has evolved over time, both in content and form. Traditional painting methods have been replaced by a new digital technique (pigment print on canvas – giclée). Jakub Dąbrowski described this change as a small “Copernican revolution.” Regardless of these transformations, his works are characterized by clarity and purity of expression, saturation of color and tonal value, a simple construction of space and stability of composition, asceticism and precision of drawing, as well as the statics and balance of elements.

As Jakub Dąbrowski writes: Rysiński’s style – there is no doubt that such a term may be used – carries an enormous potential for aesthetic gratification. At the same time, the artist has managed to capture that unrecognized “something” which makes us feel that we are in contact with outstanding art, yet which we are not entirely able to put into words. The work of the Warsaw-based artist resists discursivization; it opposes description and analysis and contains a peculiar mystery. I would associate its specific “aura” with the artist’s use of risky yet balanced compositional arrangements, extreme yet elegant simplifications, his excellent sense of color, order, and harmony, as well as his ability to balance on the boundary between abstraction and concreteness, pure decorativeness and narration, nature and culture. A rare ability to consistently find appropriate solutions for sometimes unconscious, unnamed, or even undefinable relationships between individual elements of a composition seems to determine the quality of his art.

The computer medium recently used by Rysiński, mediating the image through sequences of zeros and ones and depriving it of the dimension typical of handicraft, causes it to lose part of the aura inherent to classical painting, but at the same time gives the artist enormous creative freedom and opens new paths for exploration. Rysiński more often allows himself visual experiments and also introduces new motifs and effects which, for traditional media and the practices associated with them, might seem reckless or even unattainable. It should be emphasized, however, that regardless of the way in which Rysiński creates his works, he consistently appears to respond to Matisse’s words, inviting the viewer to rest in the “comfortable armchair” of refined form, “balance, calm, and clarity.”¹

The artist’s body of work includes 30 solo exhibitions and over 70 group exhibitions in Poland and abroad (Germany, the United States, Italy, the Czech Republic, Thailand, Russia, Belarus, Lithuania, Japan, Slovakia, Belgium, and France).

¹ J. Dąbrowski, Long Live Painting, in: A. Rysiński, “Ostre cięcie. Sharp Cut”, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, 2013, p. VII.