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For Konrad Klapheck (Düsseldorf 1935), drawing underpins his work. Starting with a brief sketch of an idea which is then subjected to a system of very rigorous geometric and formal constraints, in the final version he sets out the meticulous structure of the work, which then only needs to be reproduced in colour on the canvas. And given a title. With his titles, Klapheck gives a completely new reading of the image. The accepted rules lead to a stylisation, a simplification, even a deliberate deformation of object, spaces and figures, creating the sort of magical realism that emanates from his …