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Victoria
Monroe - Gallerist
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Bruce
Dorfman, Painter and Instructor
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Lea
Mendelsohn, Art Historian & Critic
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Kevin
Costello, Art Teacher & Critic
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The
paintings of Pavel Kapic are abstract landscapes lit from
within their Mediterranean palette with an original and
radiant energy. The subdued light is reminiscent of Tuscany.
However, the patterns of natural forms he overlays are more
complex than the quiet shapes in the Italian countryside.
Kapic’s landscapes are constructed and deconstructed
memories of meaningful places from his life. The energy
in them is the powerful force of creating one composition
from fragments of his past in Prague, Italy and New England.
As one explores Kapic’s paintings an elaborate-even
Baroque-visual language emerges. His expressionistic brushwork
may evoke an orchard, a rushing river, and a mountainous
profile in the sky. However it is the patinetcest of his
thin oil technique, his color - of faded sages, Prussian
blues and maroon velvet - and his elegant instinct for what
makes it all whole - which defines his unique style. Kapic’s
paintings invite the viewer to hike with him through his
or her own visual memories. Soon, we realize the challenge
of piecing our past together. These are cultivated landscapes
of a philosophical mind, deeply attached to the lands he
has walked.
Kapic transforms the linen canvas into a window of landscape
memories. Remembering his walks as a child along The Vltava
River in Prague, or the elegant architecture of the Baroque
city, and his many travels in Tuscany, Kapic creates paintings
like a mosaicist. Each work is a brilliant pattern made
from elements of psychic and artistic meaning.
Victoria Monroe - Gallerist
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