Another season of events in our gallery begins with an exhibition of a classic of contemporary art, a colorist and graphic artist: Professor Czesław Tumielewicz! The exhibition we will present consists of dozens of painting forms and graphics divided into two themes: - Landscape combined with architecture, for which the artist is known - Humorous erotic scenes There will be new works created in 2025 and the artist himself! Event curator: Małgorzata Pląskowska. This event cannot be missed! We warmly invite you! About the artist: Czesław Tumielewicz: (born November 20, 1942, in Lida) – Polish painter and graphic artist, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Born in Lida, in a landowning family. He has been painting since the age of 16. In May 1945, he was repatriated to Poland. Initially, he lived in Margonin, Szamocin, Wyrzysk, and Sępólno Krajeńskie, from 1954 in Bydgoszcz, and since 1961 in Gdańsk, where he studied architecture and painting (Prof. A. Gerżabek, Prof. W. Lam, Assoc. Prof. A. Fiszerowa), and artistic graphics at PWSSP in Poznań (lithography by Prof. L. Mianowski, painting by Prof. T. Brzozowski). In 1968, he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Gdańsk University of Technology. He also studied in the Painting Studio of Prof. L. Mianowski at PWSSP in Poznań (diploma in 1978). His first solo exhibition was in 1965 in Bydgoszcz. Since 1971, he has been an assistant at the Faculty of Graphics at PWSSP in Gdańsk. From 1975 to 2000, he ran the Lithography and Linocut Studio, then the Basic Workshop Graphics Studio for students of the Faculty of Graphics and the Relief Printing Studio for students of the Faculty of Painting. From 1990 to 2002, he was the head of the Department of Artistic Graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Since 1984, he has been an associate professor, since 1994 a professor, and since 2012 a full professor. He retired in 2013. He practices linocut, lithography, monotype, etching, aquatint, and in painting, oil techniques, acrylic, watercolor, and dry pastel. His work constantly evolves in multi-year cycles, initially metaphorical in the 1960s, abstract in the first half of the 1970s (the first happening and installation in Gdańsk in 1971), participating in the conceptualist Dreamers' Convention in Elbląg in 1973, structuralist magical realism in the second half of the 1970s, multi-structural planar painting based on Goethe's proportional color systems in the 1980s, followed by a four-year episode of painting commenting on the political events of the breakthrough year 1989 (in 1989–1995), during which spectral colors were rejected and metallic colors appeared (at the same time, the postmodernist cycles "American," "Borderland," and "Aboriginal"). Since 1995, an unexpected turn to realistic painting: still lifes, landscapes, portraits, while continuing the postmodernist cycle on architectural and anthropomorphic themes. In 2003, he began a cycle of erotica, realized in graphics and painting to this day. His works are in many museums in Poland (Bydgoszcz, Gdańsk, Poznań, Zielona Góra, Katowice, Elbląg, Frombork, Chełm) and abroad (Kuopio in Finland, Hanoi in Vietnam), as well as in many private collections in Poland and abroad.
