Krzysztof Kuliś

   "...Paintings by Krzysztof Kuliś amaze with their variety which is so enormous that sometimes you get an impression of being in the company of a few, extremely distant from each other, although equally strong personalities: of a gentle poet in sophisticated, light water-colours together with their tendency to being static and
   amor vacui and sometimes very advanced synthesis of shape and scale, or an unscrupulous expressionist with typical of this trend horror vacuum, fear of emptiness, of leaving at least a patch uncovered with a tangle of spots and lines of the plane.
    Thus, we have to do with a contemplative artist who wants to make us meditate and such an artist who tries to impose on us his point of view or even force us to look
   at his reality or at least its fragment through the prism of his emotions. We have to do with an artist who wants to tell us - look how it is possible to magnify the ambience
   drowsing in one prosaic landscape, how it is possible to get it to the edge of explosion, to the edge of bursting the creation by colour arrangements and tension of the composition with the strength of critical mass.
    In such situations we usually talk about rich personality. Indeed, Krzysztof Kuliś has a complex personality and is able to express it in his paintings.
    A separate chapter, or a motive in his creation is a theatrical cycle, and other mini cycles of all features of stage-setting (and the artist knows all about the theatre, in
   a way, he knows is "from the inside") style. They are figural and in a way monothematic since linked in one whole by the character of a naked or half-naked girl with rounded hips, appearing in all the works. Her personality appears both in "Dziady" ("Forefathers") by Adam Mickiewicz and in "Niemcy" ("Germans") by Leon Kruczkowski, therefore also there where she was not intended by the authors.
    Thus, in the spectator's eyes, this true-born girl changes into a symbol of senses and sensuality, becomes a personification of sensuous nature, unrestrained by any,
   even the least favourable circumstances.
    That's exactly the painting by Krzysztof Kuliś: unrestrained, sensuous and not taking into consideration the fact whether it is going to please anybody or not. That's
   why is may have, and does have, its fervent supporters and equally uncompromising enemies, but leaves nobody indifferent. And this is what best expresses its calibre".
   
   
    Jerzy Madeyski (part)