Felix Muller
dal 2/4/2008 al 9/5/2008
Segnalato da
2/4/2008
Felix Muller
Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin
Holz! During the last couple of years the Berlin based painter has developed a technically mature and distinctive but obstinate pictorial world. Muller sends Lolitas out on search amongst the trees, lets them shave their legs in a pond or makes them eavesdrop at ominous holes in the ground.
Holz! Felix Müller entitles his new group of works clearly and briefly
and hijacks the beholder into the German woods. During the last couple
of years the Berlin based painter has developed a technically mature and
distinctive but obstinate pictorial world. His works are precise and
slithery, easy and dire, contemporary and attached to the past at the
same time. Desire appears but the disaster is close.
In the woods then! And where stylized stems support the vertical line
optically, there is an emotional abyss. Black holes gape, eerie bunnies
bare their teeth and young ladies are swinging axes - all of this in
muted hues with candy-coloured emphases. There are juvenile demons that
Müller hoos through the woods - ghostly transparent girls, figures from
children's books, and the Grimm brothers are close as well - their evil
wolf however, would be a too straightforward companion. Felix Müller
rather thinks in the manner of Carroll's "Alice" or as the figure in
Hauff's spellbound tales. The actions undertaken by the protagonists
range between mysterious and obscure. This is underlined by the titles
of the works, such as "Bunkerhase" (bunker-bunny) or "Hackordnung"
(pecking order), which point to a remote martial occurrence in the
enchanted forest.
Müller sends Lolitas out on search amongst the trees, lets them shave
their legs in a pond or makes them eavesdrop at ominous holes in the
ground. But whoever gets too close to them lives in danger. Not only
because of the axes - Müller also causes the beholder to recoil because
of his technique. His works combine delicate and painterly background
with graphically cool and plane figures. A new element in the show Holz!
is the step into the third dimension: His newest work which is realised
directly on the wall, makes the figures hover in front of the wall as
wooden reliefs.
Opening: Thursday,April 3rd 2008, 6 pm
Galerie Martin Mertens
Brunnenstrasse 162 - Berlin
Tuesday to Saturday 12:00 to 18:00 & by prior arrangement
Free admission