Natalia Żychska (b. 1975) in 1996-2001 Natalia studied at the Faculty of Painting of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. She received a diploma with honours from the painting atelier of Prof. Szamborski. Natalia’s occupations include painting, including murals, drawing, sculpture and stage design. She works as a teacher and lecturer; she also often conducts workshops and open-air artistic sessions. Natalia has her own studio in the Warsaw’s district of Praga. In the years 2014-2018 she collaborated with Paweł Althamer and the Nowolipie Group. For several years, Natalia have been creating a unique original painting series titled Pornoicons. On pieces of wood retrieved from garbage, she depicts sex acts, often using very explicit scenes, stylized after icon painting. Natalia is interested in sex, body, beauty, love and object. She has developed a very distinctive working method and style.
Natalia Żychska
Exhibition view, paintings from the „Porno Icons” series
mixed techniques, various sizes
„She-woolf”, 2017
mixed technique on MDF, 114 x 120 cm
„Xanax”, 2018
mixed technique on canvas [original Jan Lebenstein’s canvas from 1989], 74 x 59.5 cm
from the „Porno Icons” series, 2017
old board, acrylic, nail polish, gesso gilding, shellac, 48.5 x 27.5 cm
from the „Porno Icons” series, 2017
old board, pernament marker, acrylic, gesso gilding, 50 x 32 cm
from the „Porno Icons” series, 2017
old board, marker, acrylic, gesso gilding, 34 x 27.5 cm
from the „Porno Icons” series, 2017
old board, marker, acrylic, gesso gilding, shellac, hinges, 32 x 26 cm
„Nun”, 2017
mixed technique on old board, 74 x 59.5 cm
„Queen”, 2019
mixed technique on MDF, 65 x 41.5 cm
from the „Porno Icons” series, 2016
old board, marker, lipstick, acrylic, gesso gilding, acrylic, 34.5 x 28 cm
from the „Porno Icons” series, 2017
old board, oil marker, crayon, gesso gilding, acrylic, 54 x 27 cm
from the „Porno Icons” series, 2015
old board, marker, nail polish, acrylic, gesso gilding, shellac, 25 x 18.5 cm
from the „Porno Icons” series, 2018
old board, acrylic, gesso gilding, shellac, 51 x 32.5 cm
from the „Porno Icons” series, 2017
individual technique on wooden board with gold elements, wax paste, 35 x 25 cm
from the „Porno Icons” series, 2018
old board, crayon, acrylic, gesso gilding, shellac, 22.5 x 12.5 cm
„Robert Brylewski” from the „Portraits” series, 2018
old board, wax paste, marker, arcylic, hinges, 59.5 x 36.5 cm
„Sara Brylewska” from the „Portraits” series, 2017
old board, marker, crayon, lipstick, gesso gilding, acrylic, 56.5 x 14 cm
from the „Porno Icons” series, 2017
old board, crayon, gesso gilding, acrylic, hinges, nail, 34.5 x 28 cm
from the „Porno Icons” series, 2017
old board, acrylic, marker, gesso gilding, acrylic, 70 x 40 cm
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