Jacek Tylicki

Jacek Tylicki

            Jacek Tylicki works within a wide range of art, including installation and land art.  His early works involved blank canvas paper that Tylicki left outside exposed to the natural elements.  Tylicki is also known for “Chicken Art”, which is an installation in the Now Gallery.  In this installation, live chickens were housed in the gallery, and looked at paintings of chickens that hung on the walls.  His statement about this piece was “For the chicken the most beautiful is chicken”.   The “Chicken Art” project was viewed as a statement about the overexploitation of the human form.  As an environmental artist, Tylicki’s art often questions the relationship between society and pollution.

            My favorite piece of Jacek Tylicki’s is Give If You Can-Take If You Have To.  I like his ideas about public interaction and cooperation.  This piece is also an environmental statement about human consumption, and how money is spent wastefully, therefore contributing to pollution.  His early projects involving the canvas exposed to nature also inspired me.  It is an interesting idea to experiment with blank canvas and nature, especially since Tylicki placed the canvasses in different types of environments and left them there for different amounts of time.