Freddy Flores Knistoffis a painter and poet born inViña del Mar,Chile in 1948. He has lived inAmsterdamsince 1985.
Freddy Flores Knistoff | |
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 Flores Knistoff in 2009 | |
| Born | 10 October 1948 |
| Education | Federico Santa María Technical University |
| Known for | Painting,poetry |
| Movement | CoBrA,FLUXUS,PHASES |
Flores Knistoff is still active in both painting and producingartist's books.He also composes experimental poetry and since 1993 has published with Hybriden-Verlag of Berlin[1]directed byHartmut Andryczuk.He is strongly connected to the international movementFLUXUS.[2]
In recent years, he has exhibited inBrussels(2007),London(2012),New York City(2008 and 2012),Pennsylvania(2012)[3]andOxford(2014).
He founded the Collective Automatic Painting of Amsterdam in 1991[4][5]and through this movement influenced other artists in the use ofautomatic painting.[6] Flores Knistoff is also an active member of the Phases movement that coalesced aroundÉdouard Jaguerand involvedRoberto Matta.[7][8]
Exhibitions
editHe has exhibited alongside the following artists:
- 1993: Cobra exhibition Museum Amstelle, Amstelveen, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Catalogue Cobra 1948-1951 collection J Karel van Stuijvenberg:Karel Appel,Asger Jorn,Jean Michel Atlan,Constant Nieuwenhuis,Jacques Doucet,Lucebert,Carl-Henning Pedersen,Karl Otto Götz
- 1993: Latino América y el Surrealismo,BochumMuseum, Germany
- withRufino Tamayo,Wifredo Lam,Wolfgang Paalen,André Masson,Eugenio Granell,Roberto Matta,Hervé Télémaque
- 1994: Museum of Modern Art,Zielona Góra,Poland
- withKarl Otto Götz,Eugenio Granell,Edouard Jaguer,Conroy Maddox,Jacques Lacomblez, Yo Yoshitome
- 1994: Phases,Brittany,France
- withEnrico Baj,Edouard Jaguer,Otto Gotz,Pierre Alechinsky,Christian Dotremont
- 1997: Phases,São Paulo,Brazil
- with Jef Golyscheff, Flavio Ciro, Victor Chab, Yo Yoshitome, New CoBra Amsterdam
- 1998: Hans und Lote Lesen, Hannover Germany
- withHartmut Andryczuk,Gerhild Ebel, Jurgen O. Olbrich, Emmet Willians, Pierre Garnier, Ann Noel
- 1999: KVP II Parasiten,Hannover,Germany
- withHartmut Andryczuk,Dietmar Becker, Gerhild Ebel, Pierre Garnier, Emmet Willians, Ottfried Zielke, Wolf Rosenthal
- 2000: Phases,Arras,France
- withPierre Alechinsky,Enrico Baj,Raoul Hausmann,Paul Jenkins,Konrad Klapheck,Carl-Henning Pedersen,Carl Buchheister
- 2005: Phases,Santiago,Chile
- withRoberto Matta,Wifredo Lam,Édouard Jaguer,Enrico Baj,Pierre Alechinsky,Sergio d'Angelo,Victor Brauner
References
edit- ^Künstler-Autoren,Hybriden-Verlag(in German)
- ^Fluxlist Europe: 8/17/08 – 8/24/08(pdf)
- ^Surrealism in 2012:Surrealists and FriendsArchived12 October 2013 at theWayback Machine,January 6 – February 19, 2012, GoogleWorks Center for the Arts, Reading, Pennsylvania:images;catalogueArchived10 December 2013 at theWayback Machine.
- ^Graham Birtwistle 1993,cited at jangiliam.nl.
- ^"Lo mejor de Capa",Surrealismo internacional blog, 20 May 2014(in Spanish)
- ^"The Best of CAPA: Collective Automatic Painting Amsterdam 1991 – 2012"(Google docs pdf)
- ^"Artistas Latinoamericanos en Homenaje a Matta",Crónica Chillán, 17 March 2011(in Spanish)
- ^Enrique de Santiago,"La Mirada Inversa",Escáner Cultural, 5 January 2008(in Spanish)
External links
edit- Homepage
- Oxford Benezit Dictionary of Artists
- Literature by and about Freddy Flores Knistoffin theGerman National Librarycatalogue
- Phasesat French Wikipedia(in French)