Under the jaguar Sun
15th October - 6th November 2022
Julia Kowalska
Louis Appleby
Mattia Guarnera-MacCarthy
Victor Gałka
YageGuo
Curated by Kamil#2
Citing a new, technological brilliance capable of changing the way in which we perceive reality, ‘Under the Jaguar Sun’ unites a group of contemporary painters whose work attends to mixed uses of natural and artificial light for their subject matters.
The exhibition contains a hidden story about the struggle of light coming outwards and inwards. Where the desire for inner light is a desire to reach for the heavens, the power of the divine. But still based on the ordinariness of life.
Louis Appleby
Memory Loss, 2022, Acrylic on wood
130x100 cm
Mattia Guarnera-MacCarthy
Sapere, 2022
Acrylic on canvas
170x140 cm
Both Appleby’s and Mattia Guarnera-MacCarthy’s works refer in their atmosphere to all the well- known films such as Mad Max or Blade Runner, where the world is submerged in orange fumes. However, they do not have the feel of a horror film or a tragedy. There is a certain calmness and ordinariness to human existence.
Mattia Guarnera-MacCarthy
Sapere, 2022
Acrylic on canvas
170x140 cm
Louis Appleby
The Years Around Your Life, 2022
Acrylic on wood
130x100 cm
People seek the element of god in light, which is perhaps why they have always wanted to light up the night with a bonfire and then, as in Louis Appleby’s painting, with candles; to then abandon external light altogether and generate it.
Future-oriented visions of alternative worlds imbue the classical painterly quest with new challenges; the plasticity of the medium, for example, at once imparts reflections on modern materials in Appleby’s work, and stymies the relinquishment of a past depicted by ghostly emanations in Guo’s.
Julia Kowalska
Untitled, 2022
Oil on canvas
140x110 cm
Julia Kowalska
Untitled, 2022
Oil on canvas
120x100 cm
Julia Kowalska and Victor Gałka’s paintings are in opposition to Yage Guo’s work, as they show a world in which light comes out of beings rather than the outside world.
Victor Gałka
Hyperportrait XII, 2022
Acrylic on canvas, 150x100 cm
Victor Gałka
Hyperportrait IX, 2022
Acrylic on canvas
85x70 cm
After humans leave this world, other beings will take over our place, possibly like the ones seen in Guo’s work.
Yage Guo
Untitled, 2022
Oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm
Yage Guo
The Moth Disturbs The Night, 2022 Oil on canvas
160 x 210 cm
Yage Guo
Apparition by window, 2022
Oil on canvas
80x60 cm