{"id":2254,"date":"2021-01-29T19:05:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T19:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galeriamiejska.pl\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2025-03-26T16:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T16:29:10","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galeriamiejska.pl\/en\/michal-hrisulidis-zlozony-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Micha\u0142 Hrisulidis\/ Complex soul","raw":"Micha\u0142 Hrisulidis\/ Complex soul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The first public display of Micha\u0142 Hrisulidis\u2019 art took place in 1988 in Bez tytu\u0142u [Untitled] Gallery in Wroc\u0142aw (currently the City Gallery). 30 years later the artists presents his artistic output once again in the very same place. It includes painting, drawings, as well as film and theatre scenography.<\/strong>

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Micha\u0142 Hrisulidis, born in 1963, is a Wroclavian painter, drawer, graphic artist and a theatre and film stage designer. He has presented his art works at numerous group exhibitions and over 50 solo shows both in Poland and abroad. He produced more than 40 set designs for theatre plays, TV theatre shows, TV series and feature films, including Historia kina w Popielawach [The Story of Cinema in Popielawy] or Daleko od Okna [Keep Away From the Window] directed by Jan Jakub Kolski. At the 19th Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia the artist was awarded for co-creating the visual language of Cudowne Miejsce [Wonderful Place] film, while his set design for Keep Away From the Window film was recognised at the 25th Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia.

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Micha\u0142 Hrisulidis, MANSO, pi\u00f3rko-tusz, 2015 r<\/strong>
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\u201cMicha\u0142 Hrisulidis\/Complex soul\u201d exhibition summarises the 30 years of the artist\u2019s artistic activity and simultaneously highlights multidimensionality of his work. This intricacy, in a way, is the essence of Hrisulidis\u2019s art, as in his creations painting interlaces with theatre while his set designs are strikingly painterly. This multifaceted nature of his art does not, however, refer only to the applied media and trespassing their boundaries. It involves also Hrisulidis\u2019s dual national identity, as \u2013 although he was brought up and lives in Poland \u2013 in his art he clearly emphasises his bonds with Greece and history and culture of Pontic Greeks. For this reason his art abounds in antique motives and mystique creatures. Still, Hrisulidis\u2019s art focuses mostly on humans and explores both human corporeity and spirituality. By juxtaposing nudity and costumes, dynamism and stillness, the popular and the sacred the artist highlights also \u2013 in accordance with the title of the exhibition \u2013 intricacy of human nature, its duality reflected among others in antonyms, such as good and evil or beauty and ugliness.
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Micha\u0142 Hrisulidis, POSTAWA, olej na p\u0142\u00f3tnie, p\u0142yta pil\u015bniowa,1998r<\/strong>
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Miros\u0142aw Jasi\u0144ski, the curator of the exhibition, writes about it: A Greek and a Pole, a human and an artist, a set designer and a painter, a drawer. In search of his identity Micha\u0142 seemingly reaches an unobvious conclusion: identity, contrary to the meaning of its etymon, can also be complex. Reaching it is suspended among the impossible, doubt and achievement spiced with a pinch of Medean witchcraft; like Jason who procures the Golden Fleece, in theory a plain sheep fleece which is, however, golden. However that took place in Colchis \u2013 historically the territory of Pontus, today Crimea. This exhibition is a bit like that myth \u2013 materially concrete and yet imbued with imagination and perennial desires.

\u201eMicha\u0142 Hirisulidis \/ Complex soul\u201d exhibition is open until the 19th January 2019.

Photos from the opening:
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Video from the opening:
http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4otMEayEs6o
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