Press reviews
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„In the early 1980s the Kraków painter revealed himself as a virtuoso, joining without any boundary the hard and rough with the elusive and unattainable — tenement walls with the sky, for example."
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„(...) Perhaps five years later, in 1996, I was sent a catalogue of works available for purchase from a certain contemporary art gallery in Warsaw. Among more than sixty paintings reproduced therein, many of them truly remarkable, I was most intrigued by Marcin Kołpanowicz’s "The Theater of the World"."
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„Marcin Kołpanowicz’s pastels are a retelling of youthful dreams. Above the steppes of vast horizons, there are misty skies here, veiled by scattered clouds. There are pale lights on the edge of the earth. And as is often the case in dreams, the reality of the image is disrupted by a fleeting, unspoken thought. Places are sometimes uninhabited or endowed with a figure. The collection of drawings from the current exhibition at the Old Gallery is titled "Images of Various Places". It is an apt name—taken from Leonardo da Vinci’s A Treatise on Painting."
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„Marcin Kołpanowicz belongs to those painters who enter the third millennium with the full extent of their creative potential. Born in Kraków (1963), he studied at the local Academy of Fine Arts (1982–1987), earning his diploma in the painting studios of Professors Stanisław Rodziński and Zbylut Grzywacz. He has participated in several exhibitions abroad and in Kraków, where he presented his own collection of paintings at the "Inny Świat" (Another World) gallery."
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„Marcin's art arises from the world of a very vivid literature, where freedom and chance do not rule but rather sombre determination and mystical inevitability."