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Galerie Max Hetzler opens a solo exhibition of sculptures by Karel Appel
Karel Appel, Singing Donkeys, 1992. Photo: def image.
BERLIN
.-Galerie Max Hetzler opened a solo exhibition of sculptures by Karel Appel at Goethestraße 2/3, in Berlin. To visit the exhibition, an informal registration by e-mail or phone is kindly requested.
In important literature on the artist, Karel Appel (1921-2006), who would have celebrated his centennial this year, is consistently referred to as a painter and founding member of CoBrA. The fact that the avant-garde group lasted only three years, and that this period thus actually grasps a relatively brief episode at the beginning of Appel s long career, is usually overlooked. Likewise, few are aware that Appel expressed himself not only in a painterly manner, but also in three dimensions. It is true that he was frst and foremost a painter, and his forays into objecthood are mostly based on a painterly rather than sculptural approach, but this is p