Pure chance rarely creates aesthetics, in most cases only a statistical distribution. The work of the artist offered here shows impressively how aesthetic components and entire works can be created with the tamed, enclosed coincidence: The individual objects come and go, but can only appear in precisely defined areas. The rigor of the grid on the one hand and the freedom of form and position of the objects on the other form an extremely attractive contrast.
Reinhold Knapp (b. 1942) lives and works in Erlangen, Germany. He studied electrical engineering and computer science, worked as an advertising manager and filmmaker, founded the multimedia agency "Dialog Design" in 1982 and has been working as a freelance artist for more than 20 years (painting,...
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