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until 09.11. | #4460ARTatBerlin | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN presents from 12. Oktober 2024 the exhibition architecture and wildernes of the artist Carola Schapals.
CAROLA SCHAPALS’ brand-new works once again shine with the artist’s subtle sense of colour and mature talent for composition. In her very own way, CAROLA SCHAPALS develops pictorial motifs full of contrasts from her travel impressions. Here, linear architecture merges with unspoilt landscapes, cool colours shine in warm light through deliberately placed highlights and the deserted picture is populated by the viewers themselves.
‘Whilst painting in the studio or plein air, I am constantly switching stylistically from concrete to abstract, from precisely descriptive to intuitively grasping. Parts of the picture are often painted over or washed out. When my painting has reached a certain atmospheric density, I stop,’ explains CAROLA SCHAPALS.
Both her large and small-format paintings are atmospheric pictorial narratives charged with tension, from which a meditative stillness emanates. It is as if CAROLA SCHAPALS’ paintings are sending out an imaginary invitation: Enter and come to rest.
Born in Wilhelmshaven in 1954, the artist studied painting at the Universities of Fine Arts in Hanover and Bremen. CAROLA SCHAPALS now lives and works in Bremen.
SCHAPALS has received international awards for her work, such as the Royal Talens Painting Award Noordwijk (NL), and has presented her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Germany and abroad.
The SCHMALFUSS BERLIN – contemporary fine arts gallery stands for contemporary art and offers both established and fresh positions a place to make contact with the interested public.
Michael W. Schmalfuß founded his first gallery in Marburg in 2001. Prior to this, the gallery owner curated an ‘art supermarket’ in Marburg together with Mario Terez. Since 2011, Michael W. Schmalfuß has been showing solo and group exhibitions several times a year on over 200 square metres of exhibition space at Knesebeckstraße 96 in Berlin. The selected works with very different formats, materials and individual artistic imagery range from abstract-concrete to photorealistic.
Vernissage: Saturday, 12 October 2024, 4 to 8 pm
Exhibition days: Saturday, 12 October to Saturday 09 November 2024
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Image above: CAROLA SCHAPALS, Night of a full moon 2024, oil on canvas, 120 x 150cm
Exhibition Carola Schapals – Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN – Zeitgenössische Kunst – Exhibitions Berlin Galerien – ART at Berlin
