Arkadiusz Karapuda "Ceci n’est pas un titre"

Arkadiusz Karapuda "Ceci n’est pas un titre"

23 April 2022 - 04 June 2022

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ABOUT EXHIBITION

All eras should learn from art. Recently, however, the situation has been changing, the world thinks it can do without art, and perhaps art is also lagging behind the present. The gap between art and reality, a variation of the deep rift between the humanities and technicized civilization, is widening the distance between matter and spirit. However, there are still artists who make this problem the theme of their artistic achievements, hoping - perhaps somewhat naively - that a similar memento will lead humanity to repentance.

Stalowa Gallery invites you to the exhibition of paintings of Arkadiusz Karapuda, a professor of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, opening on 23 April, whose works take up a difficult theme of dependence between an idea and details of the surrounding reality, between the seemingly unimportant everyday trifle and a lot of serious issues, which are hidden behind the innocently looking object. The artist is a master of painting persiflage. Using a simplified technique and seeming realism, he presents the content which can be compared to the most sophisticated ideas of symbolism, surrealism or dadaism, since the elements of all these trends can be traced in Karapuda's paintings. This is an intellectual and conceptual art, nevertheless, so striking with the accuracy of associations that a thinking viewer will be able to cope with an interpretation that is never unambiguous, but allows for numerous possibilities of interpretation.
The exhibition has been entitled by the painter - in allusion to its "patron" René Magritte - Ceci n'est pas un titre. We invite you and wish you good luck in deciphering the painter's treatise on the complexity and ambiguity of the human world.

 

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CATALOGUE

Arkadiusz Karapuda

C’est un tableau, 2019

acrylic, oil, canvas
50 x 60 cm

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Arkadiusz Karapuda

Intransigence, 2020

oil, canvas
130 x 170 cm

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Arkadiusz Karapuda

Flexibility, 2020

oil, canvas
130 x 170 cm

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Arkadiusz Karapuda

Conformity, 2020

oil, canvas
130 x 170 cm

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Arkadiusz Karapuda

Collapse, 2021

oil, canvas
130 x 170 cm

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Arkadiusz Karapuda

Post culture, 2021

oil, canvas
130 x 170 cm

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Arkadiusz Karapuda

Emptiness, 2019

oil, canvas
130 x 170 cm

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Arkadiusz Karapuda

Uniqueness, 2019

oil, canvas
130 x 170 cm

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Arkadiusz Karapuda

Abundance, 2019

oil, canvas
130 x 170 cm

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Arkadiusz Karapuda

Life, 2019

oil, canvas
100 x 100 cm

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Arkadiusz Karapuda

Think twice, 2019

acrylic, oil, canvas
17 x 24 cm

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Arkadiusz Karapuda

Competition, 2019

acrylic, oil, canvas
50 x 60 cm

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Arkadiusz Karapuda

Colour, 2019

acrylic, oil, canvas
185 x 405 cm

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Arkadiusz Karapuda

Claritas, 2020

acrylic, oil, canvas
23 x 23 cm

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Arkadiusz Karapuda

Self-aware, 2020

acrylic, oil, canvas
23 x 23 cm

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Arkadiusz Karapuda

Back to black, 2020

acrylic, oil, canvas
60 x 80 cm

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Arkadiusz Karapuda

Homeart, 2020

acrylic, oil, canvas
15 x 20 cm

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Arkadiusz Karapuda

Homelove, 2020

acrylic, oil, canvas
15 x 20 cm

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Arkadiusz Karapuda

Fame and fortune / Fame or fortune, diptych, 2020

acrylic, oil, canvas
180 x 120 cm

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Arkadiusz Karapuda

Solem movere (...), quadriptych, 2020

acrylic, oil, canvas
120 x 160 cm

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Arkadiusz Karapuda

Somewhere, over the rainbow, 2021

acrylic, oil, canvas
37 x 72 cm

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Arkadiusz Karapuda

All you need, 2021

acrylic, oil, canvas
59 x 72 cm

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Arkadiusz Karapuda

In-between, 2021

acrylic, oil, canvas
59 x 72 cm

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Arkadiusz Karapuda

From the series Status quo, triptych, 2020

acrylic, oil, canvas
100 x 140 cm

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Arkadiusz Karapuda

Culture for the future / Nature for the past, diptych, 2017

acrylic, oil, canvas
180 x 120 cm

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Arkadiusz Karapuda

The truth does not exist, 2017

Gouache, paper
30 x 35 cm

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Arkadiusz Karapuda

The truth is elsewhere, 2017

Gouache, paper
30 x 35 cm

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Arkadiusz Karapuda

The truth looks different, 2017

Gouache, paper
30 x 35 cm

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Arkadiusz Karapuda

Déjà vu, 2022

oil, acrylic, canvas
130 x 100 cm

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