CHARLINE VON HEYL
2017-05-15Charline of Heyl creates paintings that act as self-refreshing visual events, as enigmatic presences that seduce or disturb the viewer without a word. They are often funny, but they have no fear of poetic depth or even pathos. Activate the colors: they move, drain and recharge, depending on the time of day and position of the viewer. Interference colors, whose nature is paradoxical with the light to act, bring the hierarchy of tonality together. Copper, aluminum, dirty pastel colors, coal powder, fluorescent, but also graphic black and white are applied in unstable and broken layers, which creates different moods and emotions.
Drawing is an important element, although the lines and gestures are more likely to be stuck in outline than in their autonomous assertion. By repetition patterns are created, by movement or stabilization, tension or resolution. The narrative elements create their own energies, but they never break the promise. Together, composition, colors and lines slow down the view, stretch or deform the moment of vision, thus transforming time into space and making the picture an object.
Heyl is more concerned with visual effects than with the direct effect of a haptic surface. In doing so, she draws the practicality of acrylic the seductive nature of Impasto painting and oil. Brush strokes are not recognizable, which means that the image is often almost as printed. From a completely smooth surface, the work expands or contracts back into itself. Painted “stickers” destroy illusion with illusion where there is the danger that the painting might fall in love with itself.
Opposite – “Great Train Robbery”, 2017
Exhibition runs through to June 3rd, 2017
Capitain Petzel
Karl-Marx-Allee 45
10178 Berlin
Germany
