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until 10.05. | #4635ARTatBerlin |Inga Kondeyne Gallery – Raum für Zeichnung shows from 4th. April 2025 the exhibition by the artist Marlies Appel.
At the age of 80, Marlies Appel can look back on a remarkable body of work. To mark the occasion, a catalogue ‘marlies appel serpentine’ was produced, bringing together the phases of her artistic work. And now, in honour of Marlies Appel, we are showing an exhibition of new drawings in the gallery.
From sheet to sheet, Marlies Appel curiously expands her series of drawings from recent years. The result is a complex insight into transformed natural processes with ever new approaches. The first drawings from this phase date back to 2016, when inner images of the first snow on the Swiss mountain ‘Jungfrau’ would not let go of the artist. Looking at the mountain massif with its many crevasses, she was overwhelmed by the different incidence of light and the dominant shadow furrows. Memories of the folds of the robe of Jan van Eyck’s ‘Madonna in the Chamber’, which she had long ago memorised, also came back to her.
The contour of the mountain massif is constantly changing before her eyes due to the passing wind, which drives the clouds at different speeds; the changing light releases nuances of colour, which the artist later plays out colourfully on the sheets.For years, Marlies Appel had surrounded her figurines, which were integrated into surprising architectural formations, with strict contour lines. She now dissolves these into oscillating structural fragments. Networks with signs that can be interpreted as flocks of birds or branches of groups of trees, if you want to look at them that way. Again and again, richly differentiated cloud formations float through the drawings; consciously worked out free colour fields and rhythms, shaped by these significant impressions of nature, now cover the newly found structural worlds. In a way, a circular movement is revealed: When drawing, Marlies Appel also draws on experimental experiences from her student days.
The Wichtendahl Gallery is also showing Esther naused i lichträume.
Image caption Title: Marlies Appel, 29 x 42 cm, Coloured pencils on transparent film, n.d. 2024
Exhibition Marlies Appel– Gallery Inga Kondeyne | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries| ART at Berlin
