Adam RZEPECKI (b. 1950), Capricornus IX from the Capricornus series; 2022

Oil, canvas; 100 x 100 cm
Signature dates and described on the back: CAPRICORNUS 2022 ADAM RZEPECKI

Adam Rzepecki works in painting, photography and performance, creates video and installations. Since 1979 he has been a member of the "Lodz Kaliska" art group, which has had a significant influence on Polish contemporary art. 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 Adam Rzepecki's solo exhibition "Australia" at the Shefter Gallery in Krakow. Together with the classics of Polish contemporary art Piotr Lutyoski, Zbigniew Libera, Jerzy Kosalka, he forms the group "Underground Krakow" whose exhibition - NEW LEGENDS OF KRAKOWA at the Bunkier Sztuki attracted crowds of visitors. Adam Rzepecki creates a series of cosmic, contemplative works focused on the theme of the sky observed in isolation from the world. These 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 painting on display is an extremely intriguing work just like the Black Hole of the title leaves more questions than answers igniting the imagination.