Rafal Karcz Works found on the Internet: its two hundred high-resolution images is "hanging" on Flickr , articles about him are gathered on his home page , his work can also hit the auction sites with art. Rafal Karcz
lives and paints in Krakow, near Krakow, in fact, in Bronowice. "I'm sitting there, and corresponds with the world. Environment and smack me in Cracow, in short, I will too, "says in an interview . Bilateral ignoring the kind does not mean marginalization Karcz, who paints a lot and a lot of issues - the same only in 2009 and 2010 was sixteen individual and collective exhibitions. Bronowice are Karcz located on the Internet rather than near Krakow.
Karcz That makes an artist very modern (and postmodern technically speaking), although such a classification does not suggest the art field, which grows: Karcz creates watercolors (yes, these are the images created using mixed techniques), is a member of the Association of Pastel Polish and American in short, operates with traditional tools. But more important and more interesting for me is that the subjects for his paintings Karcz is typically in the network: he paints stills from videos to You Tube, with photos of teams and their fans. He has created images are thus in a trace Internet and functioning in its photographs: the new media makes present in the subject, composition and method of processing photos, or freeze the picture painter.
In many of his works Karcz play digital dirt, the pixels from low resolution video clips, computer print imperfections.
lives and paints in Krakow, near Krakow, in fact, in Bronowice. "I'm sitting there, and corresponds with the world. Environment and smack me in Cracow, in short, I will too, "says in an interview . Bilateral ignoring the kind does not mean marginalization Karcz, who paints a lot and a lot of issues - the same only in 2009 and 2010 was sixteen individual and collective exhibitions. Bronowice are Karcz located on the Internet rather than near Krakow.
Karcz That makes an artist very modern (and postmodern technically speaking), although such a classification does not suggest the art field, which grows: Karcz creates watercolors (yes, these are the images created using mixed techniques), is a member of the Association of Pastel Polish and American in short, operates with traditional tools. But more important and more interesting for me is that the subjects for his paintings Karcz is typically in the network: he paints stills from videos to You Tube, with photos of teams and their fans. He has created images are thus in a trace Internet and functioning in its photographs: the new media makes present in the subject, composition and method of processing photos, or freeze the picture painter.
In many of his works Karcz play digital dirt, the pixels from low resolution video clips, computer print imperfections.
Technically this is achieved by combining screen printing with watercolors. More important, however, is the meaning of this gesture: it emphasizes digital zapośredniczenie between "analog" experience - the experience of the concert, clubbing, afterparty, to witness the car bumps or riots - and an analog image of the painting. The latter is, moreover, then photographed and thrown on Flickr, so here goes back to the network, a digital reality.
Karcz resigns contradictive, shocking aesthetics, which handling the subculture portrayed by him: only refers to them, using them in milder forms. Karcz images are full of painterly surface roughness. There are clashes of colors, is the articulation of digital imperfections that can be understood as analogous terms of creative uses of amplification and processing sound: microphones, megaphones, overdrives and rock guitar feedback.
artist paints people in the crowd (series Revolt , U-Bahn ) and metropolitan areas, industrial landscapes. Most, however, his paintings reflect the life style of alternative cultures, hippie, punk, hip-hop. He is interested in their decadence: the moment when the revolutionary ideals are now abandoned, and the same moves, they penetrate the "system" are just an alternative lifestyle, one of many.
he portrays the subculture as a botanist-illustrator, creating illustrated atlas of plants: specimens collected, and redraw them to show them as examples of species lifestyle: party, concert, ways of listening to music, how to dance, afterparty, taking drugs, wandering aimlessly.
Concert , Faces , Bronx Fest, Hip Hop - Titles Karcz images appear in the name of a very general genre. I teams, and people in the crowd in the paintings are anonymous, introduced without proper names, deprived of stored in the appearance of individual and personal information, such as team name or brand of clothes Free member, are brought back to the representatives of the species. Perhaps thanks to this generalization visual images Karcz verdict of no force, but rather to show the beauty of this strange world.
He gives an account of the disaster antisystemic utopias, which were an alternative culture, portraying them as areas for busy playing games, painting them in a bit too populist, because the watercolors, which are close to bourgeois taste. But it does not judge. And rightly so, because these utopias, could not bear defeat. As explained by the authors of the book of counterculture rebellion for sale. Why culture is not possible to drown (Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter. Crowd. Hanna Jankowska. Warszawa: Muza 201o, Series Spectrum), if the "system", which fought subculture is a system of culture, it simply does not escape from it. You can not live outside it. This is why the subcultural alternative - usually determined by where they considered themselves as those roads that can get away from consumerism - invariably ended up as suppliers of brand names for antykonsumpcyjnych goods that are ideal to sell. History popularity postpunkowego grunge'uw years 90. (Led by Nirvana) is an excellent example of this mechanism.
Coming back to the topic of the media: topics that take Karcz, are the subjects of photography, the shots are also taken from this medium. What is not surprising if we remember that the artist przemalowuje Still with You Tube'a that - even as an ingredient in a film sequence of moving images - must retain the aesthetics of photography. Karcz moved to nobler themes popular medium, made by documentary photography, not painting: hip-hopowców gestures, gestures punk band musicians; faces: tired during the afterparty, listening intently during a concert; riots. He paints a postmodern - media-mediated, although seemingly traditional, because watercolor - scenes from the life of the metropolis.
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