Installation view, Malcolm Morley, Malcolm Morley: Sensations, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2023. Ph: Gunter Lepkowski
“Sensations” is Capitain Petzel’s first exhibition of the decorated British-American painter Malcolm Morley (1931–2018), a pioneer of the Superrealist movement that emerged as an aesthetic and ideological counterpoint to Pop Art. Amid the vast range of subject matters that made up a sixty-year career, his most recognizable canvasses depict the veering planes and titanic ships of the UK’s World War II-era military, often in action, always attentive to the minutest details, as he attempted, in his own words, to paint directly onto a viewer’s nervous system.
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