Helene Appel: Try-Outs
Helene Appel removes familiar things from their surroundings and places everyday objects in the center of her images. In various formats, between very small and over-dimensionally big, the paintings appear so tangible and real that one can’t escape their presence. It is precisely this that also characterizes the seemingly illusionistic paintings by Helene Appel on raw, untreated linen. They place the viewer in familiar, often random situations that are connected to touch, smell or taste and thus evoke immediate associations with the object. The haptic quality of the works tempts one to touch them, so unlikely does it seem that it is always about paintings on canvas. Each object is presented outside its context on a 1:1 scale, which in turn draws all the attention to the details.In her third solo exhibition, “Try-Outs” in Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle new objects assert themselves as the subject of the work
