Maurycy GOMULICKI
PHANTOM
9 Zamkowa Street
The National Museum in Lublin
Zamkowy Square
installation
Maurycy Gomulicki – born in 1969 in Warsaw, graphic designer, photographer, author of installations and short film forms. He studied at the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1987-1992). He continued his education at the Universitat de Barcelona (1992-1993), Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan (1994) and Centro Multimedia del Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico (1997-1998). He is the creator of, among other things, photographs, objects, installations, videos and animations. He has published his writings in ‘Machina’ and ‘Fluid’, among others. He lives and works in Warsaw and Mexico. He is also involved in graphic design and book illustration. In 2004-2005, together with architect J. Covarrubias and interior designer S. Quiroz, he worked on the new image of a Mexican sex-shop chain (‘Erotika Sexshop’). This was an attempt to revalue a formally neglected erotic space through extreme aesthetic action. Maurycy Gomulicki’s work is concerned with the visual manifestations of pop culture in the broadest sense of the term, especially that which enters aesthetically ambivalent territory. Thus, he breaks the boundaries between low and high culture. He is particularly interested in those elements that acquire new meanings when transferred into other cultural areas.
In 2006, at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Gomulicki presented the project ‘Pink Not Dead!’, with the participation of artists from Poland and Mexico. The leitmotif was the colour pink, which evokes different connotations in both countries. He also showed his works there (e.g. ‘Pink Niagara’, ‘Concrete Lace’).
In his projects, the artist repeatedly referred to the post-peerel visual culture of Polish cities. At an individual exhibition at the Kordegarda Gallery in Warsaw in 2007, Gomulicki presented his own photographs of fragments of the capital’s reality confronted with the ‘official’ image of the city from the black and white photographs of an album about Warsaw from the late 1960s by E. Kupiecki. At the end of 2007, Gomulicki’s book about Warsaw entitled ‘W-wa’ was published, consisting of materials from the artist’s photographic archive.
