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Igor Korpaczewski
Placáková, Mariana ; Klimešová, Marie (advisor) ; Hájek, Václav (referee)
The work is devoted to reflection on the creation of the Czech painter Igor Korpaczewski (1959) in attempt to place it in the context of Czech art history. Igor Korpaczewski has been operating for over twenty years at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where he influenced nearly a generation of painters. His paintings have been present at all major exhibitions (Perfect Tense, 2004, Resetting / Alternative Ways To Objectivity, 2007), trying to grasp the phenomenon of contemporary Czech painting. Despite this an appreciation of his complex formation is still missing. The work is therefore based on sub-articles and methods of oral history in the form of interviews with the artist himself. Korpaczewski has been primarily engaged in figural depiction. His conception of figures is here confronted with the early work of the French philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas. Meeting with Korpaczewski images I understand as the projection of I-Thou relationship, which forms the viewer. Unlike his generational peers who have been trying in the Eighties to depersonalize their work, Korpaczewski has been processing (and still he continues in it) intimate topics that he solidly assessed only in the context of the nineties. It is therefore a purely solitary expression, the relationship can be found (among others in various...
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