Bio
Kanrec Sakul (1989, Košice) works with detailed oil paintings, ob- sessive drawings and raw objects or installations. The artist’s paint- ings are dominated by a significant interest in experimentation with structures or organic forms. He works purposefully with repetition, geometric shapes or rela- tive perspective, which unfolds in an expressive and absurd color palette. By varying and combining glaze and pasty parts, a Fauvist sensibility and use of color, he builds surreal micro worlds dominat- ed by architectural vistas with an unclear function, period and place of their existence. Sakul offers various totemic objects, biomorphic shapes,interior details, platforms, cages, imaginary ceremonial sites or hints of urban structures unfolding on tiny formats or monumental canvases. An obvious interest in morphology influenced by biological elements is driven by visual automatism or associative painting, which are close to surrealist tendencies. He ironically vibrates on the wave of pseudo esoteric aesthetics or spiritual potential, but in reality his painting is very close to natural and biological forms arranged on the basis of their own rules. Sakul’s work is sometimes meditative, other times expressive. The depicted empty spaces breathe life even with- out the inclusion of figures. At first glance, the abstract-looking paint- ings present soft and articulated objects that are closest in character to flora or botanical fragments. Somewhere between the defragmentation of reality during the LSD trip and the absurd aesthetics of computer games, he builds sensi- tive ADHD worlds in which ornament has a function and nature sub- jugates everything around it.
text: Michal Stolárik
Kanrec Sakul lives and works in Košice, Slovakia. Even he did not study art school, he has been painting since his childhood. "As a child, I knew that I would always paint. For me it was always an endless game that entertained me more than LEGO building set or any other toy". Since 2014, he has been depicting "Flowers That Don't Exist in Botany" in his works. Objects, paintings, drawings and installations have the character of fantasy flowers, lands or caves with unclear amorphous borders. Wild colors, changeable textures, material diversity and artificial light are typical features of his work. In Kanrec Sakul’s sometimes twisted, but also dark fantasies imprinted on his canvases, you can easily find also a subversive humor, but a desire for a better world as well.
text : Nikolas Bernáth
Selected solo shows:
2025- Sukera Fumo Kunsthalle Kosice, Slovakia
2024- Velura Rando VUNU Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2024 - Senfina Flugo, K13 Gallery Alfa, Košice, Slovakia
2022 - Moonshine, Castle Imre Madach, Slovakia
2020 - Sunshine, VUNU Gallery, Kosice, Slovakia
2018 - Žiara - TIC Gallery, Brno, Czech republic
2016 - Kvety, KLUB, Košice, Slovakia
2013 - Moderné obrazy, East Slovak Gallery, Košice, Slovakia
Selected group shows:
2024- No Surprise Longtermhandstand Hall Budapest, Hungary
2024- Different Persons, Kunsthalle Kosice, Slovakia
2023- Spirit open , Szczecin , Poland
2023- NO WEATHER TODAY , GMP Pilsen , Czechia
2022 - VUNU FOREVER, Kunsthalle Kosice, Slovakia
2022 - SCUPA, Sculpture Park Botanical Garden, Kosice,
2021 - Flowers and Monsters, East Slovak Gallery, Kosice, Slovakia
2020 - Face of Work, Kasárne/KULTURPARK, Kosice, Slovakia
Artfairs :
2022- The Others, Turin, Italy
2021- Volta Basel, Switzerland
Bibliography selected :
2024 Artviewer NO SURPRISE at Longtermhandstand Hall – Art Viewer
2024 Kubaparis Different Persons (kubaparis.com)
2023 Flash Art Magazine : Odmalička som chcel byť maliarom: Kanrec Sakul v rozhovore s Nikolasom Bernáthom | FlashArt.cz
2023 Catalog : paintings Kanrec Sakul 2023 by VUNU