Polaczek paints the ordinary life around him, friends, flats, books, with a deadpan tenderness that sneaks up on you. A great reader, here, is half a joke and half a tribute, exactly the kind of doubleness he works in. He belongs to the Krakow generation that made the everyday worth painting.
The painter
Cyryl Polaczek is a Polish painter known for deadpan, affectionate pictures of everyday life, friends, books and interiors, counted among the Krakow generation that turned the ordinary into a subject worth a wall.