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Tableaux récents

Two adjoining rooms on the second floor offered thirteen paintings by Konrad Klapheck (1935, Düsseldorf), created between 1978 and 1994. Klapheck was fascinated by mechanical objects as a symbol of modernity. He sought to paint them as accurately as possible, while giving them human attributes and meanings that went beyond their simple function. The curved lines of a sewing machine reveal the shape of a woman, a bulldozer becomes an image of death and oppression, a typewriter becomes a recurrent theme for the search for his writer father, gone too soon, and later on, Hebrew keys added to the typewriter become a stirring homage to his Jewish wife killed in an accident. He classifies his objects into categories, giving each category specific metaphorical meanings. On his canvases, the strict drawing and the surface glaze are softened by color. Klapheck explains, “I would like to combine screams with bel canto.”
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