David Czupryn, He/She/It

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David Czupryn (*1983) studied in Düsseldorf under Georg Herold, Lucy McKenzie and Tomma Abts. He is a master of trompe l?oeil, the century-old art of visual deception that makes an unexpected comeback in his work. With brush and paint he creates mimetic imitations of surfaces; individual marks and gestures are thus negated in an almost provocative manner. The paintings - David Czupryn works with strong harmonic contrasts and layers of translucent paint ? appear seamless, they are not photorealistic, but illusionistically three-dimensional. Arrows and other graphic elements join the quiet backgrounds, bases, and motifs suggesting movement. In addition to extended limbs, there are broken symmetries, falling, floating, connected, interlaced, open and transparent parts that attract attention - images within the image, as well as accompanying set pieces. David Czupryn?s images can thus be understood without much ado as painted installations in which constructivism, kinetics and surrealism revel in ironic original states.00Exhibition: Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany (27.10.2018-06.01.2019).0.