The exhibition presents paintings by Stanislav Krupp created over different periods of his artistic career. Diverse in subject matter and colours, these pieces are united by the artist’s idea. They transmit an air of light melancholy and nostalgia, yet this is not sadness for the fleeting past or unfulfilled dreams, but it is rather a nostalgia for the eternal ideals in life.
The artist, whose work is inspired by the aesthetics of the Silver Age, symbolism, and Art Nouveau, explores the archetypes of courtly culture not as historical reconstructions, but as eternal symbols of spiritual quest. The knight in armor with a sword (‘The Futuristic Dragon’) and the horseman under the patronage of an Angel (‘The Angel of Eternal Return’) are devoid of militant aggression. In his paintings, Stanislav Krupp creates the image of a knight endowed with an inner mission to protect the fragility of Beauty and to serve the ideal image of a Lady as the embodiment of supreme harmony.
Stanislav Krupp's female images, painted in an impressionistic manner, are striking with their richness and boldness of colours and expressed emotions. Mysterious, shimmering, as if seen through the prism of rain or autumn mist (‘The Night Wind’, ‘In the Mirrors of Autumn’, ‘Mermaid Games’), Stanislav Krupp's female images are endowed with an aura of sublimity, like an echo of that very elusive ideal in search of which the artist journeys. Creating artworks that feature images from the medieval period, the artist reinterprets the past and presents its mysteries in the reality of the present days.
