Paintings by Carola Schapals
GALERIE SCHMALFUSS BERLIN presents works by the internationally established artist CAROLA SCHAPALS in a solo exhibition from 12.10. to 09.11.2024.
Image gallery
Fleeting moment when the air smells like rasberries | 2024 | oil on canvas | 40 x 50 cm
Night of a full moon | 2024 | oil on canvas | 120 x 150 cm
Where the sun plays with the pool | 2024 | oil on canvas | 40 x 50 cm
SCHAPALS is one of the best contemporary landscape painters and she has created numerous large and small formats explicitly for this exhibition.
- Vernissage: 12 October 16:00 - 20:00
CAROLA SCHAPALS' works once again shine with the artist's subtle sense of color and mature compositional talent.
In her own unique way, CAROLA SCHAPALS develops pictorial motifs full of contrasts from her travel impressions. Here, straightforward architecture merges with unspoilt landscapes, cool colors shine in warm light through deliberately placed points of light and the deserted picture is populated by the viewers themselves.
“While painting in the studio or plein air, I constantly switch 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.
And gallery owner Michael W. Schmalfuß sums up his enthusiasm for CAROLA SCHAPALS' works as follows: “I saw CAROLA SCHAPALS' paintings for the first time around eight years ago and was immediately impressed. I was thrilled by her pictorial invention, mostly a combination of real architecture and landscape. Cool, matter-of-fact, straight-lined and rectangular architecture is gently embedded in unspoiled, amorphous natural landscapes with the effect that one gets the feeling that nature is reclaiming terrain lost to urbanity. On the one hand, I am fascinated by her condensed, realistic, expressive style of painting. Varying and often dissolving, abstracting to the point of complete abstraction. On the other hand, the timelessly innovative color palette of her oil paintings. That purple in the corner, that reflexive pink, that moss green...
And last but not least, the exciting use of light in her paintings. She captures the light atmospherically, plays with light and shadow and skillfully places precise points of light, which sometimes make the scenery look like an enchanted place.
These are pictures full of contrasting harmony and at the same time very lively in their effect thanks to surreal, expressive elements. Equipped with a magnetic force that develops from an almost mystical combination of man-made architecture and the wild force of nature, they penetrate the viewer.
man-made architecture and the wild force of nature, they penetrate deep into our visual memory.
In her paintings, CAROLA SCHAPALS deals with the interweaving of exact description and intuitive perception of her surroundings. This results in atmospheric pictorial narratives charged with tension, from which a meditative silence often emanates at the same time.
silence.
