Showing posts with label Galerie 13. Show all posts
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Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Modifications as a pioneer of CAPA

Martin van Zomeren (front), Freddy Flores Knistoff (background), and Rik Lina (right) worked on a few "Modifications" in 1992 at the Galerie 13 in Hannover.


There are a few things to say about this great and unknown picture taken by Mauricio Jalil at the Galerie 13 in Hannover but first of all, I would like to remark on perhaps the work produced at this "happening" as a kind of intent of doing "Modifications". This is very important due to the fact that CAPA never worked in this format/idea but only Collective Automatic Painting or Automatic Painting. Freddy tells us that he especially brought some posters from the Stedelijk Museum with the intention of painting them over at the opening of this exhibition (these posters remain today at the Galley 13). Regarding this, we all already know that Freddy from the beginning before CAPA was already interested in "Modification" due to the influence of Asger Jorn, but he never realized that this could be the impetus to create the Collective Automatic Painting. In fact, Collective Automatic Painting is a kind of Process Art where the painting is modified in situ several times so it is continuously "Modified" in favor of the final result. Obviously here, this still wasn't theorized and wasn't thought through but the idea was there from the beginning. I also believe that the only in understand this idea was only Freddy since "Modification" is an artistic process that is very difficult to understand and it takes many years to be able to understand it, what is more, very recently it has been possible to develop an artistic process that is linked to the "Collaborative" more than the "Collective" or "Destructive" or "Vandalized". The Modification in painting is rather an act of working with what is found, discovering a hidden path of the narrative that has been put before us. It is not about covering what exists, much less destroying it. It is adaptation and discovery. About this picture, we also know that only a few CAPA participants participated due to the fact that this exhibition was a "collective" where were invited various artists from the International Surrealism collective at that moment also linked with Edouard Jaguer. Freddy tells us that the curator of the gallery was a very good friend of Jaguer and just before this exhibition called "Crossing Borders" in German "Grenzänge" he made an exhibition called "Methamorphases" which gathered artists from Phases. However, this exhibition brought together the following artists: 
 
Freddy Flores Knistoff (Amsterdam), Karol Baron (Bratislava), Guy Ducornet (Le puy Notredame), Rikki Ducornet (Denver), Kathleen Fox (Wales), Marco Fragasso (Hannover), Mathias Lyssy (Göttingen), Miguel Lohlé (Amsterdam), Rik Lina (Amsterdam), Paul Goodman (Gouda), Paul Hammond (London), Dave Bobroske (Utrecht), Conroy Maddox (London), Tony Pusey (Örkelljunga), Carlos Re (Argentina), Gerald Stack (London), Katharina van Hoffs (Hannover), Geert van Mulken (Amsterdam), Gerda van der Krans (Nijmegen), Martin van Zomeren (Amsterdam), John Welson (London), Philip West (Zaragoza), Rainer Wichering (Hannover), Mauricio Jalil (Santiago de Chile / Amsterdam) and Michael Woods (London).






About the Collective Automatic Painting Amsterdam Group (1991-2021)

CAPA (from, Collective Automatic Painting Amsterdam) is an International and Experimental group of artists founded in the 90's by the ch...