... It is not easy to label Christine Laprell's creations stylistically and make them suitable for the art business. It is not "concrete art" in the narrower sense. Her works may well bear definitive marks of the concrete, for they often show constructivist moments and have no symbolic meaning whatsoever, but materialize the spiritual. However, unlike Constructivism and Concrete Art, they are not created primarily by means of mathematical-geometric construction. Neither is it "informal art", because Laprell's painting is abstract. However, contrary to the definition, it is neither non-objective nor non-geometric. On the other hand, as art historian Rolf Wedewer put it, "two different modes of expression - gesturalism and texturology" [Rolf Wedewer: Die Malerei des Informel. Weltverlust und Ich-Behauptung, 2007, p. 10]. Ultimately, the apostrophization "Lyrical Abstraction" does not seem to me to be inappropriate. It was coined in 1947 by the French painter Georges Mathieu (1921-2012), who used the term "abstraction lyrique" to describe a group of French pioneers and representatives of the "Informel", who - like Christine Laprell - instead of using the constructive and geometric elements of abstract painting put the emphasis on direct artistically implemented sensations and spontaneous improvisation....

Casten Roth (Curator)

On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition "Spielversion" at the Kunstverein Bochumer Kulturrat on 2.07.17