Rafal Topolewski
Preview
Friday 3rd May 6pm - 8pm
Exhibition Continues
8th May - 5th June
Exhibition Opening Times
Wednsday - Friday, 12pm - 5pm (other times by appointment)
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Rafal Topolewski
Installation image, solo exhibition at The International 3, May 2013, Photo: Simon Pantling
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Rafal Topolewski
Installation image, solo exhibition at The International 3, May 2013, Photo: Simon Pantling
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Rafal Topolewski
Installation image, solo exhibition at The International 3, May 2013, Photo: Simon Pantling
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Rafal Topolewski
Installation image, solo exhibition at The International 3, May 2013, Photo : Simon Pantling
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Rafal Topolewski
Installation image, solo exhibition at The International 3, May 2013, Photo: Simon Pantling
PRESS RELEASE
The International 3 is pleased to announce that Rafal Topolewski’s first solo show will take place at The International 3. This new body of work continues the artist’s exploration into the role of image making in the contemporary world and the position of the painting and the painter within this. In seeking to create paintings rather than pictures, Topolewski’s practice is focused on the process of painting, its physicality and accidental acts. Subject matter is of secondary, almost incidental interest to the artist whose use of repeated motifs (objects for sale, imagined landscapes, palm and pine trees) are chosen as much for their challenging textures as for their concepts or stories.
Born in Grudziadz (Poland) in 1983, Topolewski graduated in 2012 with a first class BA Hons Fine Art degree from Manchester Metropolitan University. Since graduating Topolewski has exhibited at The International 3, (Manchester), The Royal Standard (Liverpool), Malgras Naudet (Manchester) London Art Fair with the Catlin Guide, at Art Gwangju with Castlefield Gallery, CAVE art-fair and with The International 3 at Art 13. Topolewski was one of the four finalists of The Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4’s New Sensations Prize 2012, and was recently invited by The Zabludowicz Collection to take part in ‘Testing Ground: Master Class’. His work is held in a number of private collections and in The Saatchi Collection. Topolewski will begin an MA at The Royal Academy Schools, London in September 2013. The International 3 will be showing work by Rafal Topolewski alongside work by Rachel Goodyear at VOLTA 9 art-fair in Basel from 10th – 15th June.
This exhibition is generously supported by The International 3 Founder Patrons : Dr. Sezgin Ismail, Bob & Hazel Miller, Jo & Allan Melzack, Martyn & Valerie Torevell and those that wish to remain anonymous.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a commissioned text written by Professor Pavel Büchler. A half finished painting, Pavel Buchler
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