Adam RZEPECKI (b. 1950), Capricornus III; 2019

Oil, canvas; 100 x 100 cm
Signed, dated and described on the stretcher: ADAM RZEPECKI CAPRICORNUS 2019

Adam Rzepecki works in painting, photography and performance, creates video and installations. He has been a member of the "Lodz Kaliska" art group since 1979. He was a co-founder of the "Culture of the Drop." His works are in the collections of the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle and the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, the National Museum in Cracow, the Museum of Art in Lodz, and the Sammlung Verbund in Vienna, among others. In 2020, there was a large retrospective exhibition "Stary Rzepecki looks at young Rzepecki" at the Bunkier Sztuki Art Gallery and a solo exhibition of Adam Rzepecki's "Australia" at the Shefter Gallery in Krakow. This
Capricornus is a series of contemplative works focused on the theme of the sky observed in isolation from the world. The works contain not so much a simple admiration of beauty as a consideration of the power of the universe its depths and our place in it. The work, although it may give such an impression, is not abstract the artist has created an image of the sky reminiscent of nebulae - the birthplace of stars - superimposing a symbolic reflection of the constellation Capricorn.