Adam RZEPECKI (1950), Brussels; 2024

Acrylic, canvas; 120 x 120 cm
Signed, dated, described on reverse: BRUSSELS / THUE OCT. 15 / 2024 / 05:26:13 PM /.
A. RZEPECKI

Polish visual artist, performer, creator of installations, photographs and films, painter and
curator. In 1979 co-founder of the Lodz Kaliska group, whose unconventional
activities significantly influenced the image of Polish art in the 1980s. He was associated with the movement of the
Kultura Zrzuty. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he ran the Lizard Gallery of Photography in
Krakow. In 1986, together with Katarzyna Pochrzęst and Grzegorz Zygier,
established the group Stacja Pi. Station. Since 2022, he has been active in the group founded together with Jerzy
Kosalka, Zbigniew Libera and Piotr Lutyensky, the supergroup UNDERGROUND
KRAKOWSKI.
The artist's works can be found in the collections of, among others: Zachęta - National Gallery of Art in
Warsaw, the National Museum in Cracow, the Museum of Art in Lodz, MOCAK in
Krakow, Zachęta Contemporary Art in Szczecin, as well as in significant
private collections, including those of Dr. Werner Jerke in Recklinghausen, The VERBUND
COLLECTION in Vienna, and Dr. Osman Djajadisastra in Aachen.

In 2020, a major retrospective exhibition "Old Rzepecki looks at the
young Rzepecki" at Bunkier Sztuki in Krakow.

Soft lines appear on the surface of the featured painting, which, although
non-representational - form the outline of a woman's breast. This barely graspable
motif introduces an element of corporeality into the cosmic space, suggesting connections
between that which is human and that which transcends individual experience. The figure
can be read as an echo of ancient images of the divine, a symbol of the
of the caring, creative force of nature of which we are a part.

Combined with the vast structure of the sky and the line of constellations, the subtle presence of the female
form emphasizes the idea of coexistence - of matter and spirit, of the individual and the universe, of what,
what is fragile and what is unchanging.

The painting is in keeping with the artist's intention, who emphasizes that the works in the series are not
abstractions, but the result of studies from nature. The fixed line of the constellation Capricorn,
placed against the background of the changing sky, becomes a symbol of the balance between
permanence and constant change. Confronting the fragility of human existence with the power of the
of the cosmos leads Rzepecki to reflect:
"I paint the stars at night, noticing what I could not see before."