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.

Sarah Kravitz - Under the Jaguar Sun Exhibition - Julia Kowalska Louis Appleby Mattia Guarnera-MacCarthy Victor Gałka Yage Guo

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.

Sarah Kravitz - Under the Jaguar Sun Exhibition - Julia Kowalska Louis Appleby Mattia Guarnera-MacCarthy Victor Gałka Yage Guo
Sarah Kravitz - Under the Jaguar Sun Exhibition - Julia Kowalska Louis Appleby Mattia Guarnera-MacCarthy Victor Gałka Yage Guo

Louis Appleby
Memory Loss, 2022, Acrylic on wood
130x100 cm

Sarah Kravitz - Under the Jaguar Sun Exhibition - Julia Kowalska Louis Appleby Mattia Guarnera-MacCarthy Victor Gałka Yage Guo

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.

Sarah Kravitz - Under the Jaguar Sun Exhibition - Julia Kowalska Louis Appleby Mattia Guarnera-MacCarthy Victor Gałka Yage Guo
Sarah Kravitz - Under the Jaguar Sun Exhibition - Julia Kowalska Louis Appleby Mattia Guarnera-MacCarthy Victor Gałka Yage Guo

Mattia Guarnera-MacCarthy
Sapere, 2022
Acrylic on canvas
170x140 cm

Sarah Kravitz - Under the Jaguar Sun Exhibition - Julia Kowalska Louis Appleby Mattia Guarnera-MacCarthy Victor Gałka Yage Guo

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.

Sarah Kravitz - Under the Jaguar Sun Exhibition - Julia Kowalska Louis Appleby Mattia Guarnera-MacCarthy Victor Gałka Yage Guo

Julia Kowalska
Untitled, 2022
Oil on canvas
140x110 cm

Sarah Kravitz - Under the Jaguar Sun Exhibition - Julia Kowalska Louis Appleby Mattia Guarnera-MacCarthy Victor Gałka Yage Guo

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.

Sarah Kravitz - Under the Jaguar Sun Exhibition - Julia Kowalska Louis Appleby Mattia Guarnera-MacCarthy Victor Gałka Yage Guo

Victor Gałka
Hyperportrait XII, 2022
Acrylic on canvas, 150x100 cm

Sarah Kravitz - Under the Jaguar Sun Exhibition - Julia Kowalska Louis Appleby Mattia Guarnera-MacCarthy Victor Gałka Yage Guo

Victor Gałka
Hyperportrait IX, 2022
Acrylic on canvas
85x70 cm

Sarah Kravitz - Under the Jaguar Sun Exhibition - Julia Kowalska Louis Appleby Mattia Guarnera-MacCarthy Victor Gałka Yage Guo

After humans leave this world, other beings will take over our place, possibly like the ones seen in Guo’s work.

Sarah Kravitz - Under the Jaguar Sun Exhibition - Julia Kowalska Louis Appleby Mattia Guarnera-MacCarthy Victor Gałka Yage Guo

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

Delighting in new pictorial languages adapted to express the complexity of today’s world order, ‘Under the Jaguar Sun’ reveals the tradition of painting as one continually able to be renewed, still necessary and relevant.