RICHARD STIPL(Czech Republic, 1968).
Untitled.
Installation of 10 pieces with wall installation support.
Polychromed resine.
Signed on the base of each piece.
Measures: 5,5 x 6 cm (per piece), variable measures.
Richard Stipl is a Czech visual artist based in Prague. He graduated from the Ontario College of Art with an honors diploma in 1992 and the same year received the prestigious Governor General's Award.
Although he began as a painter, he has devoted himself to sculpture. Using himself as a model, his busts and figures present a marked expressiveness, symbolism and disturbing hyperrealism, and develop various contemporary themes such as consumption, totalitarianism or the consequences of globalization. In recent years, the interest in Stipl's work and its repercussions have been increasing. It was presented at art fairs such as Frieze Art Fair in London, Art Basel Miami, Armory in New York, Volta Art Fair, TIAF and ARCO Madrid among others. Today it is part of numerous private collections around the world, such as the Collette Collection, Robert Runtak Collection, SOLO Madrid Collection, Sherringa Museum for Realism, Hugo Voeten Art Center, etc.
This installation could be described with the Freudian term "das unheimliche", something disturbing and creepy, on the borderline between the pleasant and the unpleasant, an oscillation between good and evil, in short, represents the stylistic maturity of the Czech sculptor.