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LAST SUMMER - PHILIPP KEEL LEINEN

The most beautiful summers are often also the most painful. We rarely feel more alive. And at
the end of those summers  we're reminded all the more strongly that everything passes. Looking
at Philipp Keel's new works in Last Summer there is the absence-apart from a single nude-of
people. Instead  there are still lifes and above all pictures of palms  pools  drinks 
initially seeming cool and summery  as well as many captured moments and incidental poetry.
Common to them all is Keel's eye for specific details and moods  and yet on closer inspection
melancholy permeates many of his works. At times  the moment has already passed or is only
visible on the blurred margins of our consciousness. What remains is a feeling of transience 
perhaps even a faint touch of loneliness. One of the great strengths of Keel's works is that
they stay subtle and reserved. We each find in them what we wish to find. In some  the
melancholy is light-hearted  little more than a gentle  not unpleasant tug at a taut string
somewhere deep inside us. In others there is more to it. Last Summer takes us to a threshold:
evening has set in  a solitary view from a veranda with a drink in hand  friends laughing in
the background as the day's last light fades. In our mind play the images of a day that passed
far too quickly  some flickering  some clear. Perhaps we feel briefly wistful  or perhaps we
turn around and go back to the others. Benedict Wells

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