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What potential does painting offer that goes beyond the technique of simply reproducing? That is a question that inevitably takes us to the transitional space between the world of objects and the abstract. And that is precisely the space which the artist Engelbert Engel explores in a variety of ways both tentative and decisive in character. His „Life trails“ touch on the relationship between man and nature, inner and outer landscape.
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He scratches, he bores, he pushes layers of paint into and over each other and feels his way into new spheres of colour in which he quite unexpectedly encounters familiar stories. What he shows are entangled webs, the metamorphoses of the most diverse insects and other organic elements. And in bringing several complex themes together he invites us to experience a world of complexity that can evoke a sense of poetry as well as the curiosity of the scientist and explorer
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Written by Jürgen Kisters, Kölner Stadt Anzeiger, 24.05.05

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carnival days

carnival days
70 x 100 cm, acrylic on paper,
2006 >more