Jarek Puczel Polish, b. 1965

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Night Storm

Biography

With a background in film and design, Polish painter Jarek Puczel found his vocation in painting and for the last fifteen years has worked prolifically, showing at many international art fairs and galleries.

Puczel's subject is the figure, particularly the head. His compositions typically feature a couple, male and female, engaged in an intimate embrace. A romantic and idealised moment is rendered in a coolly dispassionate style. His technique is graphic and crisp; the colour and tone flat, the draughtsmanship precise. The models are sparingly described: contours are missing, which allows the background to bleed through. The subjects float over the picture plane, as if at risk of disintegration. At odds with the implied emotive content, the technique sets up a tension, a critical distance from the act depicted.

As the artist's method owes a debt to the world of design, so the compositions, in their cropping and editing, owe something to film. These are images of focussed drama, like stills clipped from a continuum. They are elements of a story, which, although familiar, we are not entirely privy to. Mysterious in their content, we are invited to fill in an interpretation from the clues. Are these pictures of tenderness, alienation or something cynically performative? The coolness of delivery leaves it up to the viewer to decide whether to take the picture at face value or not.

Works

Energies, 2023
Oil on canvas
60 x 70 cm
23.6 x 27.6 in
Frequency, 2023
Oil on canvas
40 x 60 cm
15.6 x 23.6 in
K., 2023
Oil on canvas
50 x 60 cm
19.7 x 23.6 in
Night Storm, 2023
Oil on canvas
70 x 100 cm
27.6 x 39.4 in
Summer Evening, 2023
Oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm
19.7 x 15.8 in
Tuning In, 2023
Oil on canvas
60 x 70 cm
23.6 x 27.6 in
Where to Now, 2023
Oil on canvas
50 x 60 cm
19.7 x 23.6 in
Between, 2022
Oil on canvas
90 x 120 cm
35.4 x 47.2 in
Lovers (14), 2022
Oil on canvas
60 x 60 cm
23.6 x 23.6 in
Lovers (15), 2022
Oil on canvas
39.4 x 43.3 in
100 x 110 cm

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