Karin Kneffel German, 1957

Karin Kneffel (Marl, Germany 1957)

Karin Kneffel was born in 1957 in Marl. She studied literature and philosophy before focusing on painting, studying with Gerhard Richter.

Her hyperrealistic paintings play with perspectives to construct perfectly impossible places. Although often based on real places, the resulting images are ingeniously modelled scenes, highlighting the unique ability of painting to simultaneously uphold and destroy illusions.

When Kneffel translates everyday themes - such as carpets, armchairs or lamps - into art, she isolates moments, enlarges details, breaks typical perspectives and brings her reflections to life. She does not aim to paint what we see, but how we see and translating thought processes into sensual and comprehensible images.

Karin Kneffel's painting technique moves between the poles of materialisation and dematerialisation, with an almost old masterly technique. 

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