Ausstellung „CARL PFEIL - NEUE VORBILDER“

We are pleased to present Carl Pfeil's New Role Models in a solo exhibition for the first time in our gallery in Molsberg from April 26 to June 14. The opening will take place on April 26 at 2 PM.

In the painting of the young South Tyrolean Carl Pfeil, the word abstraction quickly comes to mind – but what do we actually mean by this? In the strict sense, an image would be abstract if it originates from an object and transfers it into the form of a picture, without ceasing to be recognizable as such. In painting, we often mean something entirely different: a visible that has fully detached itself from this question – not an image of something, but a pre-image that lies before any representation. An ideal that has inspired many artists since the beginning of modernity.

However, ultimately, every brushstroke on a canvas leaves a literal trace that takes us – as a figuration of a movement – back to the human hand that executed it. No matter how much one tries: From the artist's perspective, we are faced with a Sisyphean task when it comes to abstraction.

Carl Pfeil knows how to honor the brushstroke as a messenger of this insolvable connection, to celebrate its expression, and consciously positions his paintings in the gray area between gesture and narrative. Accompanied by existential and lyrical derivations, they create an open space for experience. The dynamics of the gesture, which confronts us so powerfully from them, is not understood as a substitute but is entirely self-contained – and yet it leaves a trace into which we can immerse ourselves, which seems to directly stem from the inner unrest of the artist and which unexpectedly sets our own associative logic in motion.

The rough black strokes on monochrome grounds develop on our side of the experience into a conceptual concentrate with a thousand facets. Suddenly there are paths, hooks, bulges, frays that intertwine like the characters of a long-forgotten language. And again and again – as a motif constant: intersections. Some appear constructed, while others seem accidental and give the impression that they are not formed without the resistance of the involved brushes. There are relics, like those of a journey, perhaps a life journey; there is a whole spectrum of individual moods against the broadly resonating background of blue, red, lavender.

Thus, we experience these images in the interplay of individual strokes as part of the greater whole: intersections in the sense of encounters – of one life with another, of the inner and the outer – and we keep intersecting with our own inner role models. Julius Tambornino 2026

Short & concise

Location
Emmanuel Walderdorff Gallery, Hauptstr. 41, 56414 Molsberg

Time 
The exhibition is on view from April 26 to June 14

Opening Hours 
Wednesday to Friday 2 PM - 7 PM and Saturday 2 PM - 4 PM / free of charge

Contact

Emmanuel Walderdorff Gallery, Phone: 06435 - 5483110, Email: info@walderdorff.net