"...I know few artists in Poland whose sincerity for themselves, perversity towards external expectations and imperatives, giving up the chase after fast and easy recognizability would bring enormous success, and Marian Wolczuk's art is such.
It is a very subjective record, recounting tumult and chaos, the transition and duration, anxiety and joy. It is a vivid picture of sensations and impressions transformed by the creator's consciousness. The subjectivity of these sensations and experiences would be the artist's private matter unless its form, which changes the intimate into the universal. Thanks to the form we do not see "a view from the window", but the landscape and, further, nature; not o portrait of "Mr X" but the man and humanity.
It is an art full of expression and synthesis since on each stylistic stage it refers to everything which surrounds us but never directly. This adroit and apt artist demonstrates his excellent control over the drawing, watercolour, oil or relief, though virtuosity in itself never happens to become the symbol of his personality. Marian Wolczuk has trusted his instinct which infallibly guides him in his gesture, the most tender, the least deceitful record, to personality."
prof. Janusz Przybylski
"This is not an ordinary ladder. It slightly resembles a growing tree. It has got numerous branches, once it goes up rung by rung straight to the sky, on another occasion it describes a nearly horizontal curve to one side, to the other, and turns up like a zigzag. Never repeats the some direction, it weaves endlessly in search of a perfection of form, new means of expression, different mood.
This is the way to describe the Marian Wolczuk's painting, as briefly as possible, yet a bit metaphorically."
Krzysztof Kucharski
"Wolczuk thinks synthetically. In his creative material he searches for universal, just synthetic, features. His painting thought is finding common signs which determine people and landscapes. The same man and the same landscape is not monotonous. It changes with the mood, the weather, the seasons. Is it possible to introduce a synthesis of these changes on one plane? Yes, but then a commentary becomes necessary, as well as the ability to feel the artist's sensitivity. Each painting becomes a record of the artist's life. A record of this moment which we dream will last forever. And it lasted, although in the future it will not be the contemporary truth. The ability to observe the landscape, the some one for many a month, and determine its colour, should be characteristic for every good artist. The ability to see what the field and the sky look like, when they are battered by the storm, when they are lashed by the wind and rain – that is basic, too. Still, being able to show it in such a way that we can sense the heart and thought included in the painting – that is a higher level of sensitivity. The clouds and romantic darkenings present in Wolczuk's art are the whole dynamics of these paintings. It does not have to hit us with clusters of bright colours. The drama is born in the associations of the spots. Drama and movement. In the same way the picture of human characters and moods is born."
Bogda Balicka
"...This art still remains non-figurative, but the author has managed to achieve something, which I like the most about the new works. He has managed to create an appearance of existence (some where inside the painting, under the external layer of the painting's structure) of nature, of biological life, without referring to illusory, realistic presentations. It may be so because the compositions, the outlay of coloured spots, the divisions of surface recall the landscape scheme, they indirectly refer to it, because in the series "From whitness to blackness" we can put the pictures of phases of the rising moon under the successive frames from memory. Such location – confronting the art and nature on a distant, metaphysical, os it were, plane, reminds me (the association may be too distant) of the Eastern art. The association comes more from ideas than specific realisations. This very feature – heading for life – filling the picture with the "soul" makes the recent Wolczuk's works different from the previous ones."
Mirosław Ratajczak
"When I look through materials, slides, catalogues, when 1 read reviews, I see a restless and sensitive artist, who reacts in full nervous tension to the phenomena of the world that surrounds him. He himself admits, in one of the interviews, that the everyday walks through the city supply him with inspiration for drawings and paintings. So the drawings and paintings are the record of his feelings and hunches, and his works prove that these feelings are deep. The compositions are once peaceful, analysing the possibilities of colour combinations, once densified and dynamic, as if reacting to the surge of inspiration or a good day for creating.
It is worth following the artist's struggle with nature and it is worth finding evidence of human hopelessness and triumph, when the intended goal has been reached. It gives me satisfaction to follow the record of his interesting personality, not only of a painter, a drawer, but also a teacher, in Marian Wolczuk's artistic works."
prof. Włodzimierz Kunz
