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Detlef Kappeler –
Dialectic of form and content
The most salient characteristic of Detlef Kappeler's
paintings and drawings is their intensity, an intensity
that emanates both from the form and the content and
which creates a constant interaction between meaning
and form.
Auf der Suche, one of his series that could be transla
ted as „In search of" or „Moving towards", perfectly illustrates the point of contact
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Daniel Giralt - Miracle &
Detlef Kappeler |
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between the physical energies that are given an intense and vigorous outlet and
the vehemence of his ideas.The work of Kappeler,
who lives, reasons and deals with reality dialectically,
conveys this idea of drive, impetus and creative
energy.
Those of us who have not had the opportunity to follow his earlier artistic development and who are now
confronted with his work - without colour, full of gestures, rich in material and texturally daring - will wonder what its conceptual base consits of.
lt is not difficult for those with knowledge of twentieth
century painting fo find abundant references: the figurative intensity could equally have sprung from Goya
as from the German expressionists, particularly from
Otto Dix and George Grosz; the freedom in the use of
colour could come from North American action pain-
ting and, especially, from Pollock and De Kooning. lt is
placed at a point between informalism and the new
figuration, not too far from the Cobra group, and the
command of form and colour shows his admiration for
Täpies. |
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