ANGELIKA MARKUL – The Hunt

Angelika Markul’s solo exhibition The Hunt continues the threads spun by the artist virtually since the very beginning of her career. By means of austere media and gestures, Markul sets up unique situations for sculptures and audiovisuals – enigmatic, multifaceted, offering unequivocal interpretations and intriguing because of their manner of execution. Without recourse to the macabre and to playing on viewers’ emotions, the artist, escaping to the world of nature, shows human emotional and existential states and, in a broader sense, the human predicament, man’s desires, fears and weaknesses.

The exhibition is composed of three video installations of 2012: “Tiger”, with an image of the eponymous animal in a cage, “An Image of a Hunt” [Fr. Tableau de chasse], inspired by hunters’ custom of laying slain animals on the ground; here the carcasses make up a spatial composition resembling a still life, and “Landscape” – a two-channel projection with a forest landscape.

All the works presented in the show take up a dialogue with old painting, where hunting scenes, images of animals and landscapes often served as a pretext for showing issues and significations far more complex than what was apparent at first sight.

Angelika Markul (b. 1977) in 2003 received a diploma of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts (E.N.S.B.A.) in Paris in Christian Boltanski’s multimedia studio, in 2004 she completed post-graduate studies at this school. She makes installations, videos, sculptures, and paintings. An author of numerous solo exhibitions, e.g. W środku nocy / In the Middle of the Night (with Nicolas Delprat), Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, 2012; Galerie Suzane Tarasieve, Paris, 2010; Nów / New Moon, “Znaki czasu” Centre of Contemporary Art, Toruń, 2009; Salon Noir, MAC/VAL, Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry sur Seine, France, 2009; La clarté souterraine, Zamek Ujazdowski Centre of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, 2009; Sen muchy / A Dream of a Fly, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw, 2006. She has participated in many collective shows, e.g. Particolare, Signum Foundation, Venice, 2011; Monte Negro, Art Paris/Les Nuits Parisiennes, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2010; The Pantagruel Syndrome, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Conteporenea, Turin, 2006; J’en rêve, Fondation Cartier, Paris, 2005; I Still Believe in Miracles, Museé d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 2005. The artist lives and works in Paris.

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