- Jan Karpíšek
Jan Karpíšek is a Czech contemporary painter. He was born in 1981 in
Jihlava , grew up in the South Bohemian town ofTřeboň , and now lives inBrno . Between 1999 and 2005 Karpíšek studied at the [http://www.ffa.vutbr.cz/EN/ Faculty of Fine Arts] ofBrno University of Technology , at a studio led by ProfessorMartin Mainer , where he also worked as a technical assistant. He then spent a half year in the art studio of performance of Professor Tomáš Ruller.Karpíšek's work is characterized by topics like effluxion, the erotic and, above all, spirituality. He is deeply concerned with meditation and a number of his paintings are just a record of perception of the body system and soul. However his paintings show no formal unity. His style sometimes evokes naivism or the grotesque, and other times it is similar to a gestic abstraction. Karpíšek is concerned with action painting and conceptual performance painting as well. The topic of his bachelor and master work was time. He won the Prize of Dean 2003 for his bachelor work, his large-format paintings of Hartung's character. In 2004, he was awarded second place in the student's competition Artkontakt. His work [http://www.jankarpisek.cz/english/mars3.html "Mars"] was bought in the same year by the
National Gallery in Prague and presented inIBCA 2005 in Prague. He is a member of the art group [http://www.punkwa.com Punkwa] .External links
* [http://www.sca-art.cz/artists/list/8625.htm Society for Contemporary Arts record for Karpíšek]
* [http://www.jankarpisek.com Karpíšek's homepage]
* [http://www.gkk.cz/contacts/dila.php?rid=2004&lng=en&fid=19&g=8 International symposium Contacts 2004 - Karpíšek]
* [http://www.galerieholec.cz/karpisek/bio_en.html Independent non-profit Holec Gallery writing about Karpíšek]
* [http://ng.bach.cz/ces/?msg=srecic&invc=O%2018709&un=1A1v Karpíšek's painting owned by The National Gallery in Prague]Persondata
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Czech painter
DATE OF BIRTH=1981
PLACE OF BIRTH=Jihlava ,Czechoslovakia
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