Carl Pfeil b. 1995 in Hadamar, Germany; raised in Meran, Italy; lives and works in Turin, Italy.

Pfeil graduated with a BA of Arts in Motion Picture Medium at AFDA Cape Town in 2018.  After working in film and tv, today his approach has spread into a multidisciplinary work, including also painting, sculpture, music and installation.

I’m listening to a deep instinct within myself to create harmony out of disorder. Through assembling and rearranging automatically and spontaneously form, gesture and color, that are to me symbolic for social relationships, melancholic spaces and collective existences, I want to stimulate the conceiving human body, not only to reflect on the subject matter, but to get an insight into and out of the process that has happened.

My paintings are there for contemplation and should support an experience to concentrate on the self. My artistic intention is an attempt to reconnect with the universe, to get a different understanding of generational anxiety, discover traces that follow us from the past and recognise signs that stand bright in the heaven’s purple sky. 

Abstraction just happened to me naturally. I just perceive the world like that. Sometimes I wonder if it is a left-handed thing. Do all Lefties think in abstract terms? 

Even as lefty, abstraction requests a lot of thought, emotion, concentration and discipline. It is my daily routine, to give birth to images out of complex situations, that at the end invite to contemplate, reflect and discover, without being heavily perceived aesthetically or decoratively. In today’s fast-running world, abstract art is often being misperceived and falsely consumed. We are meant to sit down and halt, it isn't "art-to-go", at least mine isn't.

As long as I don't understand the universe, I don't understand my art, nor my Self.

keys: memory, traces, gesture, spontaneity, form, composition, intuition, melancholy, rhythm, failure, (dis)order, repetition, doubt, resolution, harmony

latest readings: Rilke, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Szczesny, Jung, Kerouac

painters : Motherwell, Tapies, Kline, Soulages, Verdier, Rainer

music: Eno, Anderson, Lurie, Zappa