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Anybody thinking here of Vicco von B?low's figures with bulbous noses is definitely on the right track. Nevertheless, one of the most well loved German TV entertainers from the mid 1970s to the 1990s and caricaturist aka Loriot could only have glimpsed the absurdity of the everyday repertoire of form. Only now-in the work of Ralph M?ller-does this come fully into its own, be it with wooden spoons or egg warmers, plastic jars or bowls, piggy banks and towel rails: everything everywhere, at least in our European world, has been duly ?Colanified?.\n\nHowever, can it really only possible to approach it with elevated humour? Aren't all of these things indelibly stamped with horror vacui or are they not shot through with a more profound sense of disquiet? \n\nMany a bespooned eye of a familiar children's book figure or a dachshund featured in these seemingly naive images is characterised by a deceptive surface emptiness, building itself to a strangely controlled impasto lawn. Ralph M?ller is every inch a painter