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    The sketches, drawings and works on paper by Karl Stengel

    15 November 2017 drawings, sketches, works on paper

    A selection of works from the Stengel Collection to be shown in Florence at Palazzo Rosselli del Turco

    Tuesday December 19th in Florence, the Stengel Collection, based in the historic Palazzo Rosselli del Turco, will inaugurate a new show of works dedicated completely to the sketches and drawings of the artist Karl Stengel, who recently passed away this past summer.

    In Stengel’s drawings, even more than in his paintings, figuration prevails over abstract expressionism, and from this, passion and human suffering powerfully emerge from his subjects. Passions seen in taverns, in brothels, like in the pages of novelists Blaise Cendrars and Charles Bukowski; these are the imaginary dialogues that accompanied the artist for many years in the creation of this work. Human suffering, tormented and meagre, is exposed through the subjects seen in these works on paper. Their emotions, on the stage of life, are delimitated from the typical theatrical Stengelian ideal. Much of this suffering shown in this body of work, was first-hand experience of the artist, who endured harsh years as a prisoner in Russia during WWII and then with the arrival of the soviet tanks in Hungary in 1956. Other emotions were taken from literature, which along with music, were sources of inspiration in his artistic production. The artist’s work, whether figurative or abstract, is always seamlessly understood.

    Both in his paintings and drawings – even more so in the latter, because the figuration is more present –  surreal expressionism and lyrical abstraction emerge. The art critic Giampaolo Trotta writes, ‘a surreal figuration […] an ancestry more markedly European and German expressionist. All the works are highly original and give a strong impact, in which they unite the rare quality of possessing an absolute artistic identity, while at the same time also having strong links to the artistic history of the 20th century.’

    December 20 – January 31

    Palazzo Rosselli del Turco 

    Free admission by appointment

     

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