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Artist Statement:
I seek the peace of mind and
heart sometimes
It is called with many names
I paint what I have found
sometimes
I was born on the 15th March
1981 in the Czech Republic, a
small middle European country,
in an era of a collapsing
communistic regime.
(Communists governed until the
Velvet Revolution in 1989.) My
family is secular middle
class, ancestrally farmers and
workers, but also engineers
and had been politically
persecuted. My father is a
champion in logics and
crosswords. A family tradition
is a mushroom picking.
I was an inquiring child. I
read when I was five years
old. I wrote stories and
poems; fascinated by the fact
that we live and that we are
going to die. My best days
were rollicking in the garden
of my mother's mother and also
at the cottage of father's
parents at one of the Polish
borders. There, in the
beautiful countryside, I
started to learn Asian martial
arts from my friend when I was
nine. Trying to find the
arcanum of mysterious art of
overpowering an attacking
enemy without any weapon led
me to learn about Asian
philosophy and religion. It
corresponded with my nature
perfectly. Impressed ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Solo actions :
"A Painter, A Man", Dolmen
Gallery, Uherske Hradiste,
29.9.-26.10.2007
"Ecogardener's brush-drawings
on paper", Minikino Gallery,
Ostrava, 28.9.-31.10.2007
Confession in Krmitko (Bird
Table), Krmitko Club at
Masaryk University, Brno,
21.2.-14.3. 2006
"Following Mind and Time",
Gallery ...
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Artist Galleries:
Dolmen Gallery:
www.galerie-dolmen.cz
Gallery Ad-Astra Kurim:
www.ad-astra.cz
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Collections:
National Gallery, Prague,
Czech Republic
Gallery Ad-Astra, Kurim, Czech
Republic...
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Commissions:
I'm ready to create works for
commissions. If you like my
paintings, my topics, my
direction of concentration, my
style - we can discuss it.
Sorry, I do not simply copy
photographs of anything. But
don't hesitate to state some
serious topic, some question,
spiritual problem etc. If you
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Reviews for Jan Karpisek:
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Awards:
2nd prize in the Artkontakt competition, Brno, 2004
The Prize of Decan, School Award for Extraordinary Bachelor Work, Brno, 2003
Bibliography:
* MF Dnes Central Bohemia, 8.7.2007, Students exhibit with their teacher, Zdenek Hejduk, 2007
* Atelier, 10/2007, pg.5, The Fluid Arscontact?, Helena Hradska, 2007
* Arscontact Balance, catalogue, Brno, 2007
* 8th auction salon of artists (catalogue), Nadace Charty 77, Praha, 2006
* 4th pre-Christmas benefit auction of visual artworks (catalogue), pg.11, Veronica Foundation, Brno, 2006
* Punkwa, Atelier, 25-26/2006 (double issue) pg. 11, Marie Haskovcova
* Galerie (Vaznost a nevaznost Jana Karpiska), magazine A2, 47/2006, P. Vanous
* Depese (Punkwa Blues, pomalu a line), magazine A2, 46/2006, Edith Jerabkova
* I Watch - review of exhibition, magazine A2, 23/2006, Petr Vanous, 2006
* Atelier (fortnightly art magazine), 22/2005 pg.5, Cas malby Jana Karpiska - Jan Karpisek's Time of Painting (exhibition, Brno / Artkontakt Gallery, 16.9.-15.10.), Pavel Ondracka, 2005
summary:
"Jan Karpisek (1981) contributes to the stream of Czech art that is characterized by reconsidering the phenomenon of painting. His works echo the influence of Martin Mainer (1959) who was his teacher at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno. In Karpisek's painting, the time is dynamically transformed from the past to the present and / or the future and vice versa, corresponding to the return from the eternal values to the topical social criticism. According to Ondracka, Karpisek's works echo "the inner contest between the ideologue and the painter". Thanks to this inner dilemma, the prominence of the medium of painting has been replaced by the prominence of the dramas expressed through the medium of painting. Karpisek had conceived the Brno exhibition as "the collected works". The series of paintings on display evidenced the development of the figurative expression from the types inspired by the 1960s-figuration to the post-Modern and contemporary types."
* Atelier (fortnightly art magazine), 16-17/2005 pg.4, Druhy pohled (International Bienale of Contemporary Art 2005), Ales Svoboda, 2005
* IBCA - Catalogue, pg. 300-301, National Gallery Prague, 2005, ISBN 80-7035-301-5
* Artkontakt - Student Confrontation, 2nd year Catalogue, Brno, 2005
* Contacts 2004 - 5th international symposium of art academies, (czech and english version), Gallery Klatovy Klenova, 2004
* Literarni kabaret, Pavel Magda & Lukas Henzl, Magda Printhouse, Brno, 2003
* 7th auction salon of artists, Nadace Charty 77, Prague, 2004
* FaVU VUT Brno 1993 - 2003, FaVU Brno, 2003, ISBN 80-214-2495-8
* Atelier (fortnightly art magazine), 10/2002 pg.5, Exhibition of Studio Painting II in Kutna Hora, Petr Vanous, 2002
* Atelier Tomase Rullera 1992 / 2002, FaVU VUT Brno, 2002, ISBN 80-88675-82-0
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