Zygmunt Rytka has produced more than 40 works in the photographic medium as well as over a dozen films and video works, most of them developing a concept contained in his photographic cycles. In later life, he also produced works in the form of objects and installation. The photographic cycles also include conceptual projects from the 1970s such as Time Units, based on a kind of instruction manual to follow when using a camera, as well as...
Zygmunt Rytka has produced more than 40 works in the photographic medium as well as over a dozen films and video works, most of them developing a concept contained in his photographic cycles. In later life, he also produced works in the form of objects and installation. The photographic cycles also include conceptual projects from the 1970s such as Time Units, based on a kind of instruction manual to follow when using a camera, as well as numerous projects that are sort of mini-performances in front of the camera lens or video camera. An example is the cycle Bluff, in which Rytka plays the role of an action movie hero in a golden coat and white gloves. Also among the are projects based on critical documentation of media activity, as with the cycle Photovision, comprising more than 5,000 photographs taken directly of a television screen in 1978–1983 and showing how mass media worked in communist-era Poland.
Also digitised were signed original prints as well as an entire archive of negatives related to Rytka’s artistic output. As a result, the individual cycles on the page are represented both by shots which the artist chose to be blown up and a much larger set of pictures preserved on negatives and slides which Rytka never used. It is possible to compare these two collections by choosing the object types in the filter settings on the page.
Time Units, 1971-1973 (number of objects: 38)
Object X, 1971 (number of objects: 144)
Some Meetings, 1971-1981 (number of objects: 60)
Test, 1972-1977 (number of objects: 65)
Research of Lines, 1973 (number of objects: 5)
Private Collection, 1973-2000 (number of objects: 117)
Three Bullets, 1974 (number of objects: 13)
Bluff, 1975-1979 (number of objects: 546)
Fiat 126p, 1976 (number of objects: 27)
Toys, 1976 (number of objects: 24)
Positions, 1976 (number of objects: 19)
Introduction to Objective Photography, 1976 (number of objects: 2)
Description of Place, 1978 (number of objects: 13)
Photovision, 1978-1988 (number of objects: 2355)
Photo-Grapho-Transfer, 1978-1981 (number of objects: 61)
Momentary Objects, 1980-1994 (number of objects: 75)
Projection Series, 1980 (number of objects: 52)
1981, 1980-1981 (number of objects: 167)
Continual Infinity, 1982-1993 (number of objects: 552)
Holographs, 1982 (number of objects: 4)
Complementary Images, 1982-1984 (number of objects: 10)
Formulating a Statement, 1983 (number of objects: 3)
Entropia Film, 1984 (number of objects: 9)
Coming Soon, 1984-1985 (number of objects: 35)
Beside Art, 1986-1991 (number of objects: 112)
Momentary Objects - Scheme of Disintegration, 1987-1988 (number of objects: 54)
Momentary Objects - Scheme of Transformation, 1987-1989 (number of objects: 211)
Impermanent Object, 1989-1994 (number of objects: 208)
Transient States, 1992 (number of objects: 4)
Contact, 1993 (number of objects: 370)
Neuron-Optical Space, 1993-1994 (number of objects: 76)
NOE, 1994 (number of objects: 8)
Videophotographs, 1994 (number of objects: 5)
Elements, 1997 (number of objects: 83)
And What Now, 1998 (number of objects: 28)
Personal Stone, 1998-2003 (number of objects: 6)
Lying, 1999 (number of objects: 15)
Dynamic Objects, 2002-2003 (number of objects: 82)
Self-portrait, 2003-2004 (number of objects: 3)
Permanent Places, 2008 (number of objects: 5)
My Forms of Transfer, 2010 (number of objects: 26)
Traces - evidence of existence, 2011 (number of objects: 14)
