Æppel / Orange pulls an organic, chthonic power from the roots of visual reverie, creation, growth, pattern, myth and life, all examined through painting that is neither figurative nor abstract, but rather generative and becoming.
Fruit-like forms take shape in shallow spaces; shapes move like smoke in viscous twists and folds. Confetti-like pieces of colour float, unsure where or not the laws of gravity have yet been spoken into being, while other pieces coalesce or grow from a substrate of light. Large in scale, intimate in tonality and surface, sensual and mysterious in form and shape, these paintings are slow to unfold. They rebel against the prevailing image and attentional culture that has become so fast and frivoless, where scale is most often experienced in the palm of one's hand and images consumed in the thousands; these paintings ask you to move around and take in the physicality and shifts in color and edge, to sit a while, to allow your eyes and mind to wander.
The paintings in the main gallery contain a luminosity that works its way out from the surface of these paintings, recalling glimmers of Venetian tonality. Smaller shapes build amorphic, larger shapes with Florentine lines playing between positive and negative spaces, while the colors and framed spaces echo Bauhaus color theory. Texture, gesture and agitation are kept to a minimum to create paintings that hold a quiet stillness. The paintings embody a cerebral space, which feels familiar but otherworldly and intuitive, where thoughts remain preverbal and primordial. The paintings hint at a world coming into being, taking form and shape. Patterns, colours and relations grow and emerge like a skewed reflection of the natural world or a world nascent in its creation; a dream world as it slips through your fingers.
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