you are Doing the teacher’s wrong about that? . After all, David Czupryn has once started as a sculptor Georg Herold. And now, the sculpture also plays in his painting a prominent role. You can even make up himself in his current images of all sorts of quotations from his first, highly esteemed in düsseldorf, teacher. But to the painter of 1983 in Duisburg, Germany-born artist, now the Darmstadt Kunsthalle has set up its first institutional solo exhibition ever was. only after his exchange from the sculpture class in the class of Lucy McKenzie’s He painted in Trompe-l’œil style, first of all, just another one of his cardboard characters.

Christoph Schütte

a Freelance writer based in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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It’s not even a joke, when you claimed, and it is remained until today. Only all the objects, find no correlation more in the real space, but still in the area, and so the painted image. Materiality, structure and surfaces are of wood and marble, glass, and plastic, metal, or concrete, as before, the focus of scenic interest. But it seems on closer inspection to be different. Czupryns intimate stage rooms in the already huge formats seem at first glance so trendy and realistic, so grotesque as to detail and seem to rarely just from this, but a virtual world borrowed. And, it seems, on this surface, it is Czupryn.

references from recent art history

“My question was, I like the Trompe-l’oeil into the 21st century. Century get,“ says the artist. And if you like the painter stated that we are still in the post-modern life, especially in his still-is it life, also undoubtedly succeeded. Because what happens in these spaces, is an almost romantic to calling hullabaloo. A less dream than nightmare-like spectacle, in which the things of our everyday life, in the air, snakes, dream catchers and candy canes with comic book-like, as with the scroll saw cut-out figures of a strange animated life of its own.

still, the closer one seeks to come to the Events in the pictures, the more this painting seems to be, Yes, and the painting as such – the ostensible Graffito, for example, or as sprayed of the end of grace, but with the brush-applied passages to kaprizieren on the quote. It was during the studies at the own sculptures which they returned as the protagonists of his pictures, the Work of the past three years, mainly individual motifs; objects and sculptures, such as the presence of art is just as Classic, Modern, Georg Herold or Isa Genzken, Hans Bellmann, Picasso, and Alexander Calder, Lygia Clark and Bruce Nauman, in Czupryn. Alone why?