“Clapeko’s work has always been characterised by a duality: on the one hand, the emotional, which manifests itself in free, gestural painting and forms a first layer of paint; on the other, the rational bundling and ordering of these emotional forces through geometric-constructivist forms.
Concrete, monochrome shapes and planes, added together in rows, are laid over the informel painting. As a counterpoint to the eruptive, free painting, they set fields of colour that convey calm, yet which can themselves begin to float.
Whereas strictly parallel vertical lines dominate the pictures in the second half of the 1990s, in more recent works ovals and circular discs in dense sequence also take on the structuring role of the stripes.”
Excerpt from:
Variatio delectat oder Der Reiz der Vielfalt von
Ingeborg Ströle Jegge
im Katalog
Clapeko – Vielfalt und Einheit erschienen 2002 beim Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg,
ISBN 3-933 257-97-2
Gallery paintings
