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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 Galleries:
Dolmen Gallery: www.galerie-dolmen.cz
Gallery Ad-Astra Kurim: www.ad-astra.cz
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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, ...
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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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Exhibitions for Jan Karpisek:
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Solo actions :
"Brian Tjepkema, Jan Karpíšek", (with Brian Tjepkema), Doma Gallery, Kyjov, 4.6.-20.6.2010
"Everything has got its own head!", (with Lukáš Karbus), Café Sausalito, Brno, 29.4.-9.6.2010
OHE&<327;ÍHIT - Freegan art of time paintings?, U mloka Gallery, Olomouc, 21.10.-13.11.2009
"Well we all are in the Kettle, but everything is absolutely allright", Institute of macromolecular chemistry AV &<268;R, Prague, 13.10.-7.11.2008
"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 Artkontakt, Brno, 15.9.-15.10. 2005
The Passing Of The Time (Performance), Festival New Media, Cheb, 2003
Salon Zena (Exhibition of paintings), Jezuitska Street, Brno, 2002/2003
Selected collective exhibitions:
2010
"Silent post melts the bounds", Café Steiner, Brno, 20.12.2010-29.1.2011
"Eko Bio", Reduta Theatre, Brno, 15.12.2010-21.1.2011
"Apartment exhibition", flat no.3, Gorkého Street 2, Brno, 14.12.2010-20.1.2011
"Une femme est une femme: Us in woman, woman in us", Alfa Passage, Brno, 6.-23.12.2010
"Blaze", Gallery of the Sumperk Region, Sumperk, 10.9.-7.11.2010
"Boys and girls who don't mind about that", Sam83 Gallery, &<268;eská B&<345;íza, 15.8.-13.10.2010
"Blaze.cz Tel&<269;", Atelier Návrat, Tel&<269;, 31.7.2010-14.8.2010
"Blaze.cz Jihlava", Vyso&<269;ina County Gallery, Jihlava, 6.-23.5.2010
"Ratolest Gallery", Café Sausalito, Brno, 24.2.-31.3.2010
"Blaze.cz", Kašpar Dostal Gallery, Prague, 16.1.-16.2.2010
"Christmas Presents Distribution by the Blissful Ones", Café Steiner, Brno, 18.12.2009-14.1.2010
2009
"Normal Childhood", benefit exhibition, House of Lords of Lipá, Brno, 14.9.-4.10.2009
"Betakontext", Freie Internationale Tankstelle, Berlin, Germany, 5.-8.8.2009
"Svitava to Svet (World)", Exhibition Hall Below the Tower, Trebon, 1.-30.8.2009
"Cycle Tcheque", Lagalerie, Rue de la Forge Royale, Paris, France, 24.6.-4.7.2009
"Stuck in the Middle of November II", Dolmen Gallery, Kampa, Prague, 18.6.-12.7.2009
"Blaze 2", Gallery Stary Pivovar, Brno, 8.4.-8.5.2009
"The Pack of Bats", Gallery of the city Blansko, 10.1.-11.2.2009
2008
"Stuck in the Middle of November II", Dolmen Gallery, Brno, 4.11.-25.11.2008
"The Horizontal Eight and The Banana", Reduta Theatre, Brno, 10.10.-16.11.2008
"Blaze.cz", U Mloka Gallery, Olomouc, 8.10.-8.11.2008
"Fifty-Fifty - gender, porno and art", Hala C, Prague, 26.9.-14.10.2008
"Kampa Punkwo?", Dolmen Gallery, Kampa, Prague, 18.6.-10.7.2008
"VII. Art Prague", (Basic), the Mánes Exhibition Hall, Prague, 26.5.-1.6.2008
"The Critics Prize for Young Painting", Gallery of Critics, Adria Pallace, Prague, 30.1.-15.2.2008
"BBKL-Labor" (mail-art), Kunstraum, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, 29.1.-16.3.2008
"Punkwa - Vernissage", Peng, Mainz, Germany, 12.1.-2.2.2008
"King Industry", The Slovak National Gallery, Zvolen Castle, Slovakia, 6.1.-27.1.2008
2007
"Stuck in the Middle of November", Topic's Salon, Prague, 10.11.-30.11.2007
"The Anomal Paintings About Brno", Gallery Vinum Misae, Havlickuv Brod, 9.11.-10.12.2007
"ARSkontakt Balance", The Supreme Burgrave's House, Prague, 2.10.-28.10.2007
"Vernisage", Vrakbar, Jihlava, 24.9.-30.10.2007
"40 days of Punkwa", Dolmen Gallery, Brno, 3.7.-13.8.2007
"Wine", Vinothek At The Golden Pike, Kolin, 28.6.2007-28.7.2007
"ARSkontakt: The Balance", South Wing of The New City-Hall, Brno, 18.4.-15.5.2007
"Amaro Jilo - Our Heart", House of Arts, Brno, 12.4.-26.4.2007
"ARSkontakt: The Balance", South Wing of The New City-Hall, Brno, 18.4.-15.5.2007
2006
"8th auction salon of artists for BARIERY account", Cloisters of Carolinum, Prague, 14.11.-2.12.2006
"El Temperamento Nuevo", House of Blues, Plzen, (24.10.-23.11.2006)
"Summer Solstice", Housa's Mill, Tabor, (16.6.-30.6.2006)
"Pipistrello", Club Fleda, Brno, (30.3.-2.5.2006)
"Damerychtufauleve", Gallery FaVU, Brno (7.2.-19.2.2006)
2005
"Malta 2", Hadivadlo Theater, Brno
"Artcontact", 2nd year of student confrontation, Gallery At the Good Shepherd"s, Brno
"Artcontact", 2nd year of student confrontation, Gallery XXL, Louny
"Punkwa 001", Gallery in Old-Firemen-Station, Brno-Komin
"ArtPrague", Artkontakt Gallery presentation, Gallery of Vaclav Spala, Prague
"International Biennale of Contemporary Art", National Gallery, Prague
Diploma works exhibition, Gallery Aspekt, Brno
2004
Atelier Klasse - Klasse Atelier, The Brno House Of Arts
"Astorka II", The Library Of Janacek Academy of Music And Performing Arts, Brno
"MMS", The Brno City Theatre
"Quasi-Reality", Gallery Riverside, Prague
"Artcontact", young artists confrontation, Gallery of Young, Brno
"Contacts", international symposium of fine art academies, Grannary Klenova
"Artcontact", travelling of the confrontation, Gallery XXL, Louny
"Artcontact", travelling of the confrontation, Gallery Vltavin, Prague
"Homepage", exhibiton of www sites of visual artists, Gallery Doubner, Prague
2003
"Between The Church And The Square", Brezanova Street No. 6, Trebon
Gallery Bartholomeus, Festival New Media, Cheb
The Library Of Janacek Academy of Music And Performing Arts, Brno
2002
Gallery Of Felix Jenewein, Kutna Hora,
Gallery Medium, Bratislava, Slovakia
Vegetarian Agitprop Canvas of Nesehnuti, Malinovsky Square, Brno
Gallery of Critics, Adria Pallace, Prague
Fast One, Studio Of Environment, FaVU, Brno
"Honza, put out the wings!", Gallery NoD, Roxy, Prague
2001
Staromestska Radnice (The Old City-hall), Prague
Castle in Namest na Hane
Jan Smok Gallery, Jihlava
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