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Dzisiaj at Kunsthalle Zürich is the first institutional solo presentation by the Polish artist Karol Palczak. The exhibition features a new series of oil paintings on aluminium and marble connected to the artist's home village of Krzywcza in south-eastern Poland and the surrounding landscape.
For over ten years now, Palczak has been creating works devoted to his immediate environment, studying the area meticulously. Dotted with mountains and valleys, this Subcarpathian region, once inhabited by Jewish, Christian Orthodox and Catholic communities, is now marked by a sense of emptiness and stillness. Palczak's works – still lifes, landscapes and scenes featuring recurring protagonists – reveal mostly overlooked details in the economically strained, increasingly depopulated and militarised environment of his native Krzywcza. The banks of the San River that flows through the village – and which has served as the border be…
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Dzisiaj at Kunsthalle Zürich is the first institutional solo presentation by the Polish artist Karol Palczak. The exhibition features a new series of oil paintings on aluminium and marble connected to the artist's home village of Krzywcza in south-eastern Poland and the surrounding landscape.
For over ten years now, Palczak has been creating works devoted to his immediate environment, studying the area meticulously. Dotted with mountains and valleys, this Subcarpathian region, once inhabited by Jewish, Christian Orthodox and Catholic communities, is now marked by a sense of emptiness and stillness. Palczak's works – still lifes, landscapes and scenes featuring recurring protagonists – reveal mostly overlooked details in the economically strained, increasingly depopulated and militarised environment of his native Krzywcza. The banks of the San River that flows through the village – and which has served as the border be…
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