Katarzyna Karpowicz, Pink, 2023

oil, canvas, 90 x 90 cm signed and dated p.d.: Kat. Karpowicz 2023; signed and dated l.g.: 2023 Kat. Karpowicz; signed, dated and described on the reverse: KATARZYNA KARPOWICZ/"RÓŻOWY"/90x90/oil/canvas/2023/z kolekcji/"CUENTACUENTOS

exhibited: Cuentacuentos, Art Gallery, Warsaw, March 2024 reproduced: Katarzyna Karpowicz CUENTACUENTOS, 22 pp.
"Pink" is a painting from the solo exhibition "Cuentacuentos" held under the banner of Art.pl Gallery in March 2024 in Warsaw. The work is signed in the upper left corner and in the lower right corner. The painting is "rotating," it can be displayed in two ways (correctly, and "upside down"), each of these options introduces different tensions and reception. Such an idea may bring to mind playing cards. However, the composition on the surface seems harmonious, its weight is balanced, but the stories are different. The motif of the mask and the intense color-strongly saturated pink-are two ingredients that unite the painting into one.
Each painting in the series "Cuentacuentos" (a Spanish word that can be translated as English "storyteller," and in Polish - storyteller) was created under the influence of fascination with the social culture of Spain. It was there that Katherine Karpowicz observed the relationship between close and strangers, their gestures and exchange of ritual compliments, touch, kisses, hugs and affection.
"Pink" is a story that the viewer can interpret for himself at will, depending on his experiences and needs. The characters are fictionalized, painted from imagination fueled by memory, the author's dreams, and favorite movies and music.
It can be a love story, friendship, sisterhood and brotherhood. A veritable celebration of a meeting, a fiesta, an exchange of glances and a theater of gestures. A painterly vivisection of human relationships. The multiplied motif of the mask allows one to go even deeper and search for symbolism - for each culture different and for each person different. There is also the motif of the mirror, which can symbolize purity of mind and the ability to see things as they are. "Pink" is a story about the complexity of relationships, which consist of many, sometimes mutually exclusive feelings that coexist simultaneously and are very human, but difficult to understand, define and reconcile. "Pink" is the essence of life with its bright and darker sides, it is an appetite for, life to continue in a strong and vibrant color.
When painting this picture, Katarzyna Karpowicz had in mind the films of Pedro Almodovar, and a song from the film "The Pink Years" directed by Alain Berliner (1997)-with the title "Rose" by Zazie.

Katarzyna Karpowicz (born 04.11.1985 in Cracow) graduated with honors from the local State High School of Fine Arts in 2005. She studied at the Faculty of Painting of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in the studio of Professor Grzegorz Bednarski, and in the studio of Professor Leszek Misiak. She defended her diploma with an excellent grade in 2010. Katarzyna Karpowicz's works are in many collections at home and abroad, and in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Gdansk. In 2019, she won the Anna Maria Siemieńska Grazella Foundation's creative scholarship for outstanding young artists. Between 2014 and 2019 she was consistently listed in the top ten of the Kompas Young Art ranking (2017 and 2018 she was awarded second place). She works in oil painting, and creates mixed media works on paper.

Solo exhibitions:
2024 Cuentacuentos, Art Gallery, Warsaw.
2022 December "Eclipses", Plock Art Gallery, Plock.
2022 February "Maurin", galeriaart.pl, Warsaw
2021 June "Moment", Wirydarz Gallery, Lublin.
2021 September "No words needed", Triada Gallery, Gdansk, Poland
2020 August "Silver" galeriaart.pl, Warsaw.
2019 October "Small great life", Platon Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland
2018 December "Blue glass", Art Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2018 April "Theater of everyday life" Raven Gallery, Cracow, Poland
2017 October "Goodbye, until tomorrow", Triada Gallery, Gdansk, Poland
2017 April "Human stories", Promotional Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
2016 April "Genius loci," Artemis Gallery, Cracow.
2015 October "Harold and Ernest church of St. Bartholomew,
Lower Basildon," United Kingdom
2014 November "The Life of an Image," Szép Műhely Galéria, Budapest, Hungary
2014 March "On the Road," Platon Art Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland
2013 October "Katarzyna Karpowicz- painting", Advocates Club, Cracow, Poland.
2013 April "Man and animal", Mazovian Center for Culture
Culture and Art, Elektor Gallery, Warsaw
2012 August "Widnokrąg", Od Do Gallery, Gdynia.
2012 January "Between light and shadow", Museum of Pharmacy, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
2011 December "I dreamt", Art Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2011 May "Transformations", BWA Gallery, Zamosc
2011 May "Let's go to sleep", Art Gallery, Night of Museums, Warsaw
2011 January "Encounters", Gallery 2 Worlds, Cracow

Selected group exhibitions:

2022 "Direction of Art" Boleslaw Biegas Museum,Warsaw.
2022 "Decade of Open Eyes Art Festival", Oginskis and Potuliccy Palace, Cracow.
2022 "7 stages of a woman's life" Municipal Gallery of Art in Lodz,Kindermann Villa
2021 "Antigravity" BWA Gallery, Tarnów
2020 "One_Ona" Platon Art Gallery, Wroclaw.
2020 "Intimacy", Katarzyna Karpowicz and Katarzyna Kukuła, Raven Gallery,
Cracow
2019 "Young Polish Painting", National Museum in Gdansk,Department of Contemporary Art
2019 "Art Now" pre-auction exhibition, National Museum in Krakow
2018 "XIV aniversario Galería de Arte Montsequi", Madrid, Spain.
2018 "Karpowicze", exhibition of the Karpowicz family as part of the Capital of the Polish Language festival, Szczebrzeszyn
2018 "Realism,Two Views," BWA Gallery, Bydgoszcz, Poland
2017 "Leszek Misiak and students" Galeria Centrum, Nowohuckie Centrum
Culture, ASP Gallery, Cracow
2017 "Configurations Krakow Art Meetings", Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow.
2017 "Small format exhibition of ZPAP Krakow District",Raven Gallery, Krakow
2016 "Espacios, ciudades, arquitecturas, gente", Galería de Arte Montsequi,
Madrid, Spain
2016 "8 women Conductorhouse", Regional,Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts,Częstochowa
2015 "Abstraction, figuration,contemporary Cracow painting MANK Galéria", Szentendre, Hungary
2015 "Salon of Painting and Sculpture of ZPAP Krakow District", Gallery Center, Nowa Huta Cultural Center, Krakow
2015 "Exercises" Platán Galéria, Polish Institute, Budapest, Hungary
2014 "4 x Karpowicz", Raven Gallery, Cracow, Poland
2013 "Zakynthos 2013 post-exhibition", Stalowa Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2012 "Art saves lives", exhibition by Katarzyna and Joanna Karpowicz, Gallery of the Foundation for the Promotion of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
2011 "100th anniversary of ZPAP", Cracow Palace of Art, Cracow
2007 "Landschaft als suggestive Vision von Licht und Raum", Rathaus Steyr, Austria
2007 "Facing Wyspianski", post-competition exhibition, Szafirowa Pracownia, Kraków

Prizes and awards:

2019 Grazella Foundation creative scholarship
named after Maria Anna Siemińska for outstanding young artists
2019 Third place in the Compass of Young Art
2018 Second place in the Compass of Young Art
2017 Second place in the Compass of Young Art
2016 IV place in the Compass of Young Art
2015 VIII place in the Compass of Young Art
2014 IXth place in the Compass of Young Art
2012 13th place in the Compass of Young Art
2012 Honorable mention in the painting competition of the Franciszka Eibisch Foundation, Warsaw, Poland.
2011 Award of the President of the Painters' Club of the Union of Polish Artists
Artists for a painting at the exhibition of Small Painting Forms,Krakow
2008 Honorable mention for autobiographical comic strip in Gutek Film competition,Warsaw
2005 1st prize in painting at the National Biennale
Human Landscape dedicated to Józef Czapski, Cracow
2004 First prize for painting at the National Art Competition
Contemporary Europe - People and Places, Katowice
2003 First prize for a set of works in the 10th All-Polish Plein-Air
Painting, Jeżów