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Artist Statement:
The Iao: Acme Burger Company
gallery is proud to present
the experimental mixed media
watercolors from Polish artist
Rafal Karcz. Within his
multiple series of small-scale
paintings, the artist examines
and critiques historical
truth, cultural trends
particularly among the youth,
and battling control/chaos
within the medium of
watercolors, which he uses to
violate traditional assumption
about what the craft can do
within the viewer’s
expectations.
Examples of source imagery
which Karcz range from photo
still taken from the
anarchy/punk movement
supposedly from Europe to mug
shots taken of the
co-directors of Phillips
Gallery in downtown Salt Lake
City to a still of the
kidnapped Hanns-Martin
Schleyer by the infamous
Baader-Meinhof terrorists.
Whether the original source is
an appropriated press
photographs from the annals of
history or possibly personal
snapshots from the artist’s
own camera, Karcz’s magical
ability to render his subjects
with a loose discipline
manifests a strong command of
his merging of conceptual idea
with a well-crafted
draftsmanship that shows
within each work.
Inspired by the Czech New Wave
film stills, Karcz
acknowledges each segment of
the subculture he researches
thoroughly like a visual
sociologist. For example,
within his ...
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Artist Galleries:
www.born-busse.de
www.galeriakarowa.pl
www.bochenskagallery.pl
http://thelivingroomart.blogspo
t.com/2009/10/rafal-karcz
www.thebluedoor-artgallery.com.
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Exhibitions for Rafal Karcz:
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Individual expos :
> 2010 dj conta mc conta groupie, BOK RONDO, Galeria Promocyjna, Łódź, Poland
> 2009 zabawki dla dorosłych / przeciwnicy [ Toys for adults / Opponents ], with Sylwia Górak,
> Galeria BB, Wrocław, Poland
> 2009 Beyond the border, International Contemporary Art Fair, San Diego, California, USA
> 2009 FUCKKK KKKAPITALISM, art-project, IAO projects, Salt Lake City,
Utah, USA
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> 2009 Lato w mieście / Summer in the city, Galeria Klementyny
> Bocheńskiej,
> Warszawa, Poland
> 2009 Multimedia Kunstfestival Summer of love, Galerie Born/Busse, Leipzig,
> Germany
> 2009 International Art Project KEY TO FREEDOM,
Fabrik e.v. / schauraum,
> Galerie Works, Germany
> 2009 Deep Idea of Painting, with Karolina Szmuc, Galeria Carte
> Blanche, Łódź, Poland
> 2009 From a club and a church, Klub Alter Ego, Szczecin, Poland
> 2009 Afterparty, Galerie Born/Busse, Leipzig, Germany
> 2009 various/similar similar/various, iao projects/burger company, Salt
> Lake City, Utah, USA
> 2008 Traffic/engineering, Galerie Born/Busse, Leipzig, Germany
> 2005 CARS, CSW Solvay, Kraków, Poland
> 2004 JAPAN, Galeria Rafała Korzeniowskiego, Kraków, Poland
> 2003 Galeria Hotelu Elektor, Kraków
> 2003 Architectonical Sketches,, Galeria Politechniki Krakowskiej, Kraków, Poland
> 2003 Motives of Architecture and Other Stuff, Galeria SARP, Kraków, Poland
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> Group expos :
2009 7th ART FAIR, Zamek Królewski, Warszawa, Poland
2009 KUNSTSTOFFE Art Project, Saarbrucken, Germany
> 2009 REGALART Arts Galeria, Barcelona, Spain
> 2008 Blickdicht, Bollag Galleries, Zurich, Switzerland
> 2008 Geld spielt keine rolle, Galerie Born/Busse, Leipzig, Germany
> 2004 Group Art Project contact.by.art.pl , CSW Solvay, Kraków, Poland
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