The Throwback

​Art Rapture, The Iron Works Building

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September 23, 2023

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"For this exhibition, Art Rapture challenged each participating artist to craft a unique work while aligning themselves with an artist or artwork that has profoundly influenced their own artistic journey."

- Paul Becker, Chief Curator

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"Recipient of the inaugural Art Rapture Prize for Visual Arts"

In partnership with Emily Carr University of Art + Design

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Into the Woods: Scorned as Timber, Red Cedar, Woos=d Interior (Emily Carr) is a large-scale multimedia art installation that spans four feet wide and 8 feet tall. From a distance, the viewers are greeted with a towering and heavily textured hanging sculptural tapestry on an orange safety fence. The front piece reveals a pixelated image of Carr's painting printed on a vinyl banner, displaying a deforested landscape. A tunnel behind leads to another background mural of collage paintings, contrasting the front piece with a lush, thriving, and flourishing forest. By pixelating, shredding, weaving, and reconstructing the landscape paintings by Carr, Hipol aims to create a new terrain where viewers can make their own enriched journey of exploring a coastal rain-forest. And also grow awareness of present environmental, social, and cultural awareness.

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Karl Hipol's mixed-media art installation "Into the Woods: Scorned as Timber, Red Cedar, Wood Interior (Emily Carr) is significantly influenced by and a throwback o Emily Carr's 'forest paintings.' As the title indicates, Hipol curated and composed three paintings to create an innovative, immersive, tactile contemporary artwork. The three works relate to today's relevant environmental issue: Old-growth logging and clear-cutting. This legal, environmental destruction Carr has witnessed is still present today and still impacts everyone on Earth. Karl believes that the case above is only a few of the problems that threaten the extinction of local flora and fauna, the continued conflict of territories of the Indigenous communities in BC and Canada, and significantly contribute to the worsening of global warming and climate change.

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Official Catalogue Here

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Photography by Khim Mata Hipol

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​fine art

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