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PIFO | Works in ‘Benjamin Appel: Flowerbed in the Cellar’

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Flowerbed in the Cellar is the first solo exhibition in China by German artist Benjamin Appel. Inspired by the geometry of rectangular forms, a familiar structure in daily life, the shape itself does not appear in nature. The exhibition brings together oil paintings, site-specific installations and video work with an associated text by Appel developed during two PIFO residencies in Beijing, one in 2016 and 2017.

Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 54, 2017,PIFO | Works in ‘Benjamin Appel: Flowerbed in the Cellar’,PIFO,Flowerbed,Appel,Cellar,Works,Benjamin,canvas,Ecke,stellen,space

Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 54, 2017

Oil on canvas

60 x 50 cm

Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 62, 2017,PIFO | Works in ‘Benjamin Appel: Flowerbed in the Cellar’,PIFO,Flowerbed,Appel,Cellar,Works,Benjamin,canvas,Ecke,stellen,space

Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 62, 2017

Oil on canvas

100 x 80 cm

Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 29 将桌子置于角落 29,

Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 29 将桌子置于角落 29, 2016

Oil on canvas 布面油画

165 x 130 cm

Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 61, 2017,PIFO | Works in ‘Benjamin Appel: Flowerbed in the Cellar’,PIFO,Flowerbed,Appel,Cellar,Works,Benjamin,canvas,Ecke,stellen,space

Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 61, 2017

Oil on canvas

160 x 130 cm

Woodboard, concrete, stool ,PIFO | Works in ‘Benjamin Appel: Flowerbed in the Cellar’,PIFO,Flowerbed,Appel,Cellar,Works,Benjamin,canvas,Ecke,stellen,space Flowerbed in the Attic, 2017

Woodboard, concrete, stool

470 x 370 x 15 cm; 40 x 40 x 57 cm

Born in Augsburg, Germany, Appel’s family moved to Ecuador when he was a small child. Fifteen years later he moved back to Germany to study and has since lived in Peru, Bolivia and Santiago de Chile. Appel embodies the notion of transculturalism – absorbing images and ideas from his environment and the diverse cultures in which he has lived. His current practice reflects on nature, space, negative space, materiality, urbanism and the mundane – yet fascinating – beauty of everyday objects. This exhibition demonstrates how the existing walls of the gallery, its spaces and sightlines, even the horizontals and verticals of the architecture, can all be woven together with contemporary materials, objects and painted canvases to form a coherent whole that is, in essence, one total work of art.

Wood, drywall panels, metal objects 500 x 400 Flowerbed in the Cellar, 2017

Wood, drywall panels, metal objects
500 x 400 x 300 cm

Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 15, 2015,PIFO | Works in ‘Benjamin Appel: Flowerbed in the Cellar’,PIFO,Flowerbed,Appel,Cellar,Works,Benjamin,canvas,Ecke,stellen,space

Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 15, 2015

Oil on canvas

60 x 50 cm

Single channel video with text | Colour,PIFO | Works in ‘Benjamin Appel: Flowerbed in the Cellar’,PIFO,Flowerbed,Appel,Cellar,Works,Benjamin,canvas,Ecke,stellen,space Fish in the Flowerbed, 2017

Single channel video with text | Colour

8’49”

Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 31, 2016,PIFO | Works in ‘Benjamin Appel: Flowerbed in the Cellar’,PIFO,Flowerbed,Appel,Cellar,Works,Benjamin,canvas,Ecke,stellen,space

Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 31, 2016

Oil on canvas

90 x 70 cm

Oil on canvas,PIFO | Works in ‘Benjamin Appel: Flowerbed in the Cellar’,PIFO,Flowerbed,Appel,Cellar,Works,Benjamin,canvas,Ecke,stellen,space Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 42, 2016

Oil on canvas

40 x 30 cm

Oil on canvas,PIFO | Works in ‘Benjamin Appel: Flowerbed in the Cellar’,PIFO,Flowerbed,Appel,Cellar,Works,Benjamin,canvas,Ecke,stellen,space M?bel und Schranken 114, 2015

Oil on canvas

50 x 40 cm

Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 56, 2017,PIFO | Works in ‘Benjamin Appel: Flowerbed in the Cellar’,PIFO,Flowerbed,Appel,Cellar,Works,Benjamin,canvas,Ecke,stellen,space

Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 56, 2017

Oil on canvas

200 x 180 cm

The two new large-scale site-specific installations occupying much of the gallery space are titled Flowerbed in the Cellar and Flowerbed in the Attic. Created using simple materials, the geometric organization of the elements makes the space as a whole appear static, austere and unsettled but at the same time filled with energy and strangely poetic. The paintings, produced by the overlapping of more than 100 layers of rectangular blocks of vivid colour, are part of the series Putting the Table in the Corner that began in 2015. The artist text, distributed across the two floors of the gallery, is a tragicomic reflection on the tedious but nonetheless contented inner world of the animal in the video work Fish in the Flowerbed.

Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 58, 2017,PIFO | Works in ‘Benjamin Appel: Flowerbed in the Cellar’,PIFO,Flowerbed,Appel,Cellar,Works,Benjamin,canvas,Ecke,stellen,space

Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 58, 2017

Oil on canvas

160 x 130 cm

Oil on canvas,PIFO | Works in ‘Benjamin Appel: Flowerbed in the Cellar’,PIFO,Flowerbed,Appel,Cellar,Works,Benjamin,canvas,Ecke,stellen,space Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 25, 2016

Oil on canvas

50 x 40 cm

Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 10, 2015,PIFO | Works in ‘Benjamin Appel: Flowerbed in the Cellar’,PIFO,Flowerbed,Appel,Cellar,Works,Benjamin,canvas,Ecke,stellen,space

Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 10, 2015

Oil on canvas

50 x 40 cm

Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 63, 2017,PIFO | Works in ‘Benjamin Appel: Flowerbed in the Cellar’,PIFO,Flowerbed,Appel,Cellar,Works,Benjamin,canvas,Ecke,stellen,space

Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 63, 2017

Oil on canvas

130 x 110 cm

Located somewhere between constructivist utopias, minimalistic gestures and the here and now, Benjamin Appel creates a fragile but also sensual, in part even frightening, model of space. Using newly constructed objects of concrete, plaster and metal, alongside 14 geometric, abstract paintings, text and video works, Appel balances the abstract meaning of space as concept, location and material.

Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 66, 2017,PIFO | Works in ‘Benjamin Appel: Flowerbed in the Cellar’,PIFO,Flowerbed,Appel,Cellar,Works,Benjamin,canvas,Ecke,stellen,space

Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 66, 2017

Oil on canvas

100 x 80 cm

Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 55, 2017,PIFO | Works in ‘Benjamin Appel: Flowerbed in the Cellar’,PIFO,Flowerbed,Appel,Cellar,Works,Benjamin,canvas,Ecke,stellen,space

Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 55, 2017

Oil on canvas

200 x 180 cm

Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 53, 2017,PIFO | Works in ‘Benjamin Appel: Flowerbed in the Cellar’,PIFO,Flowerbed,Appel,Cellar,Works,Benjamin,canvas,Ecke,stellen,space

Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 53, 2017

Oil on canvas

150 x 130 cm

Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 64, 2017,PIFO | Works in ‘Benjamin Appel: Flowerbed in the Cellar’,PIFO,Flowerbed,Appel,Cellar,Works,Benjamin,canvas,Ecke,stellen,space

Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 64, 2017

Oil on canvas

130 x 110 cm

Den Tisch in die Ecke stellen 59, 2017,PIFO | Works in ‘Benjamin Appel: Flowerbed in the Cellar’,PIFO,Flowerbed,Appel,Cellar,Works,Benjamin,canvas,Ecke,stellen,space