Konrad Klapheck Knihy

This monograph brings together an astonishing group of paintings that span the course of German painter Konrad Klapheck's six-decade-long career--from his painterly investigations of technological machines and everyday objects such as typewriters, sewing machines, and ventilators to his more recent figurative work. Klapheck's early paintings employ subtle anthropomorphization and are charged with psychological, social, and political meaning. A telephone, for example, takes on a playful, eroticized quality in one canvas, while a typewriter becomes a menacing object evocative of brute power in another. An artist's artist, Klapheck has never painted according to fashions dictated by the art world; he is a painter guided by his own obsessions. However, in their surprising combination of deadpan depiction and evocative playfulness, Klapheck's canvases forge an important link in twentieth-century art, melding elements from Surrealism and Pop art with a singular painterly sensibility.

In diesem Band der Conversation Series spricht der angesehene Kurator und Gesprächspartner Hans Ulrich Obrist mit dem deutschen Pop-Surrealisten Konrad Klapheck und bezieht den deutschen Konzeptfotografen Hans-Peter Feldmann ein, der die Aktivitäten des Nachmittags mit einer Reihe von fotografischen Porträts dokumentierte. Kritiker Ken Johnson schrieb in einer Rezension in Art in America über Klaphecks psycho-erotische "Maschinen"-Bildsprache: "Was Klaphecks Bilder fesselnd macht, ist die Art, wie die Objekte, die er malt, psycho-erotisch animiert sind. Seine Maschinen… sind wie primitive Totems… monumental, amüsant absurd und sexuell suggestiv." Dieser Band enthält umfangreiche Fotodokumentationen mit vielen neuen Gemälden, die skurrile menschliche sexuelle Begegnungen in Farbe darstellen.