PETER ZIMMERMANN
CROSS/LINKED
FEBRUARY 06 – 29, 2020
Exhibition Opening
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 06, 2020 6PM
Opening Hours
MON – SAT 11AM – 7PM
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Featured Artist
PETER ZIMMERMANN – Germany, b.1956
Zimmermann studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart from 1978 to 1983. Since then he has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums both within Germany and abroad. He works as a painter, sculptor and object artist. He was a professor at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne between 2002 and 2007.
Zimmermann’s work is extremely diverse. At the end of the 1980s he created his “Book Cover Paintings,” in which the covers and titles of atlases, art books, travel guides and dictionaries were represented on canvas using epoxy. Zimmermann makes epoxy paintings that explore the visual effects of surface and material through glossy pour-like shapes of rich colors. His amorphous forms prompt endless interpretation, the depth and density of his materials creating visceral effects of shifting light and color, heightened by layered airbrushing. For source materials, Zimmerman repurposes book covers and old paintings, and uses Photoshop filters to manipulate found images from the Internet into unidentifiable abstractions.
Through his cardboard objects he works with the spatial distortion of the written word and thus questions the relationship between text and image. The colourful motives in his epoxy resin images arise from digital templates, such as photos, film stills or diagrams, which he distorts by means of graphical algorithms and transfers onto the canvas in numerous transparent layers of epoxy resin. Since 2014 he has increasingly realised this conceptual approach through the medium of oil painting. Questions concerning the relationship between the original and its depiction as well as an engagement with the concept of the surface lie at the centre of his creative output. Zimmermann’s work is to be found in numerous private and public collections, for example the Bundeskunstsammlung in Bonn, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The artist lives and works in Cologne.
About the Exhibition
PETER ZIMMERMANN, “CROSS/LINKED”
Mastering the use of pigmented epoxy resin and acrylic on canvas, German artist Peter Zimmermann’s work explores the visual effects of form and material through multi-layered compositions of colors and shapes, resulting in an effect of shifting light and mirror-like surfaces.
Zimmermann’s abstract pieces are produced by digitally manipulating book covers and found images that are enlarged, blended and transformed into incognizable objects. This creative method brings about tones of Modernist Color Field painters, where emotions, meanings, and intentions are conveyed in plain sight, unbeknownst to the audience.
As a testament, his art has been displayed in venues such as Galerie Michael Janssen in Germany and Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris. The artist’s pieces may be found in numerous collections, including the MoMA in New York, the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, the Neue Galerie Graz in Austria, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, and the New Orleans Museum of Modern Art.
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