»IT IS ABOUT FORMS IN MOTION IN AN IMAGINARY WORLD. ABOUT THE FRACTION OF A MOVEMENT AT THE DECISIVE MOMENT.
COLOURFUL LANDSCAPES, SOMETIMES CROSSED BY PEOPLE, INVITING DIALOGUE.
These are not works that dictate obvious messages; they do not provide answers, but rather focus on deceleration.
THEY LEAD INTO THE OPEN AND THUS INTO THE FREEDOM OF THE VIEWER.«
Anke Gebert, Der Hamburger
After studying in Cambridge, Lausanne, and at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, Sylvia Goebel has been working as a freelance artist in Hamburg since 1986. Her works combine bright colors with abstract and partly figurative elements. Since the 1990s, she has been internationally active, exhibiting in London, Venice, Stockholm, and Basel, among other places. In 1997, she received the Art Addiction art prize. Goebel's works can be found in renowned collections.
”Standing in the tradition of abstract expressionism, Sylvia Goebel works to a large extent by applying and scraping off layers of colour, creating, especially on her large canvas works, an indeterminate ambience of hidden meanings, of DEPTH and intensity, then again of LIGHT WIDTH.“
Hamburger Abendblatt
”Sylvia Goebel's paintings are an outstanding SCHOOL OF SEEING - they are a deep reflection on the magic and fragility of the moment. (...) Her COLOURS AND SHAPES seem to lead a PHANTASTIC LIFE OF THEIR OWN - sometimes delicate and broken, to then abruptly change again into an OSCILLATING LIGHT, a seemingly indifferent fleetingness can suddenly BREAK UP and abruptly give way to a dizzying pull.“
Dr. Hans Thomas Carstensen (art historian), catalogue text
»Sensitivity and DYNAMICS do not contradict each other. In Sylvia Goebel's paintings, this AMBIVALENCE of expression is decisive. The colour swings softly and RICH IN NUANCES on mostly large-format paintings. (...) The application of paint is always impulsive; yet the lively gesture in Goebel's paintings serves as an ORDERING PRINCIPLE.«
Ursula Herrndorf, Hamburger Abendblatt
»PLEASANTLY NON-REPRESENTATIONAL, PARTLY AGAIN HOLDING FIGURATIVE MOTIFS, AN AESTHETIC IDIOSYNCRASY IS SHOWN IN PURE COLOUR, WHICH DISTINGUISHES THE WORK, BECAUSE THE SPOT OF COLOUR, THE SPLASH AND THE BLOB - ALL DIFFERENTLY AESTHETIC STRUCTURAL STATES OF PAINTING - ARE TRANSFERRED AND COMPOSED BY THE ARTIST INTO AN INFORMAL CONTEXT, WHERE THE COLOUR IS NOT ONLY THE MOTIF, BUT WHERE THE PART-SURFACE RHYTHM AND COLOURFUL ROTATION BECOMES TANGIBLE.«
Prof. Dr. Rolf-Hermann Geller (art historian), Catalogue text
»IT IS ABOUT FORMS IN MOTION IN AN IMAGINARY WORLD. ABOUT THE FRACTION OF A MOVEMENT AT THE DECISIVE MOMENT.
COLOURFUL LANDSCAPES, SOMETIMES CROSSED BY PEOPLE, INVITING DIALOGUE.
These are not works that dictate obvious messages; they do not provide answers, but rather focus on deceleration.
THEY LEAD INTO THE OPEN AND THUS INTO THE FREEDOM OF THE VIEWER.«
Anke Gebert, Der Hamburger
After studying in Cambridge, Lausanne, and at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, Sylvia Goebel has been working as a freelance artist in Hamburg since 1986. Her works combine bright colors with abstract and partly figurative elements. Since the 1990s, she has been internationally active, exhibiting in London, Venice, Stockholm, and Basel, among other places. In 1997, she received the Art Addiction art prize. Goebel's works can be found in renowned collections.
”Standing in the tradition of abstract expressionism, Sylvia Goebel works to a large extent by applying and scraping off layers of colour, creating, especially on her large canvas works, an indeterminate ambience of hidden meanings, of DEPTH and intensity, then again of LIGHT WIDTH.“
Hamburger Abendblatt
”Sylvia Goebel's paintings are an outstanding SCHOOL OF SEEING - they are a deep reflection on the magic and fragility of the moment. (...) Her COLOURS AND SHAPES seem to lead a PHANTASTIC LIFE OF THEIR OWN - sometimes delicate and broken, to then abruptly change again into an OSCILLATING LIGHT, a seemingly indifferent fleetingness can suddenly BREAK UP and abruptly give way to a dizzying pull.“
Dr. Hans Thomas Carstensen (art historian), catalogue text
»Sensitivity and DYNAMICS do not contradict each other. In Sylvia Goebel's paintings, this AMBIVALENCE of expression is decisive. The colour swings softly and RICH IN NUANCES on mostly large-format paintings. (...) The application of paint is always impulsive; yet the lively gesture in Goebel's paintings serves as an ORDERING PRINCIPLE.«
Ursula Herrndorf, Hamburger Abendblatt
»PLEASANTLY NON-REPRESENTATIONAL, PARTLY AGAIN HOLDING FIGURATIVE MOTIFS, AN AESTHETIC IDIOSYNCRASY IS SHOWN IN PURE COLOUR, WHICH DISTINGUISHES THE WORK, BECAUSE THE SPOT OF COLOUR, THE SPLASH AND THE BLOB - ALL DIFFERENTLY AESTHETIC STRUCTURAL STATES OF PAINTING - ARE TRANSFERRED AND COMPOSED BY THE ARTIST INTO AN INFORMAL CONTEXT, WHERE THE COLOUR IS NOT ONLY THE MOTIF, BUT WHERE THE PART-SURFACE RHYTHM AND COLOURFUL ROTATION BECOMES TANGIBLE.«
Prof. Dr. Rolf-Hermann Geller (art historian), Catalogue text