Artist, designer, photographer, collector, anthropologist of popular culture. Hedonist deeply devoted and consequently promoting the Culture of Pleasure. He studied Fine Arts in Warsaw, Barcelona, Milan and Mexico. During the 90’s and early 2000’s had run his own collector-fetishistic sections in a couple of polish magazines: “Machina” & “Fluid”. Consultant and co-author of the project ABCDF – a visual dictionary of Mexico City (2000-2002). He has introduced himself to a broader public through his subversive, multidisciplinary project Pink Not Dead! (2006). Author of three photo albums: Fúnebre (with Jeronimo Hagerman, Editorial Diamantina, 2006), W-wa (Bęc Zmiana Foundation, 2007) and Minimal Fetish (LeTo Gallery, 2010). Many of his pieces enter a dialogue with eroticism and pornography – in this case, it is worth to mention a huge mural in the Zachęta National Art Gallery: Fertility Pop (2008) or a series of collages entitled Pussy Mandala (2008-9). Intensive colour, explored as much in its vital potential as in its socio-cultural aspect, is an important component of his works. During recent years he often makes interventions in public space – The Pearl (Wigry, 2009), Lightspurt (Warsaw, 2009), Color Cube (Wrocław, 2010), Obelisk (Poznań, 2010), Totem (Open’er, Gdynia, 2012) and Relax & Luxus (Artloop, Sopot, 2012). Gomulicki is a very active artist – his latest projects include, among others, Bibliophilia (MOCAK, Cracow, 2011), Fern Flower (Arsenał, Białystok, 2011), Phantom (Open City, Lublin, 2011) Sanctuary (Królikarnia, Warsaw, 2011), Specter (Cité Administrative, Bruxels, 2011) and Diamonds Are Forever (Arsenał, Poznań / National Library, Warsaw, 2011). The most important of his 2013’s projects include Beast (Cracow), Melancholy (Tarnów) and Queen (Warsaw). Gomulicki permanently collaborates with Warsaw’s LETO Gallery.
Maurycy Gomulicki’s work relates to the issue the visual manifestations of pop-culture. He breaches the boundaries between high and low culture. The series Sentimental Typologies (1999) portrayed a world of erotic phantasmagoria, created by photographing store mannequins. HisVaginettes (2000) on the other hand, were an attempt in controverting a sensual potential in the image of science and religion.
“If pornography is a spectacle that intends to invoke an arousement for the watched image, these photos hope to be pornographic”, Gomulicki describes the series, also entitled Vaginettes
Maurycy Gomulicki is also involved in graphics and design. In years 2004-2005, together withe architect Jorge Covarrubias and interior designer Salvador Quiroz, he worked on a new image for a Mexican sex-shop network (Erotika Sexshop). It was an attempt to revalue the formally neglected erotic area through extreme aesthetic action. In 2006 at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, along with his works (Pink Niagara and Concrete laces) Gomulicki presented a project Pink Not Dead!, with the participation of artists from Poland and Mexico. The guiding theme was the color pink, arousing different connotations in both countries.
In his projects the artist repeatedly refers to the post-People’s Republic of Poland visual culture of Polish cities. During a solo exhibition at Kordegarda Gallery in Warsaw (2007), Gomulicki presented his own photographs of the capital’s reality confronted with the official image of the city- a black and white photo album of Warsaw from the late 60’s by Edmund Kupiecki. At the end of 2007, Gomulicki published a book about Warsaw entitled W-wa consisting of materials from his photographic archive.
