Artist Focus:
Peter Zimmermann
Modeka Art is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Peter Zimmerman opening September 2021 in Manila, Philippines.
Artist Biography
Peter Zimmermann, born in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1956, is a German painter, sculptor, object artist and university professor.
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.
AEON
2020
100 cm x 80 cm | 39.3 inches x 31.4 inches
Epoxy on Canvas
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GRID
2020
120 cm x 100 cm | 47.2 inches x 39.3 inches
Epoxy on Canvas
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WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (SELECTION)
Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen
Neue Galerie Graz, Graz
Esbjerg Museum, Esbjerg
FRAC Île-de-France, Paris
Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris
Musée National d’Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Musée d’Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne
FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux
FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Köln / Cologne
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Museion, Bozen / Bolzano
Filmoteca universitaria de Barcelona
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
New Orleans Museum of Modern Art, New Orleans
New York Public Library, New York
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus
Fondazione Prada, Mailand / Milan
La Colección Diéresi, Guadalajara, Mexico
Foro Cultural Luis Vazquez, Mexico City, Mexico
Yunes Foundation, S. Paulo, Brazil
The Farjam Foundation, Dubai
María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation, Madrid, Spain
Installation at German Embassy, Algier
2022
Epoxy resin on aluminium honeycomb
Installation View / Top View
Schule von Freiburg
2016
Epoxy resin
Stains 309
Amtsgericht Düsseldorf
2010
Epoxy resin
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
layer on layer, Nosbaum Reding Gallery, Luxembourg
MODEKA Art Space, Manila
Halle 9 / Techne Sphere, Leipzig
2020
sway, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin
MODEKA Art Space, Manila
2019
Miniaturen, MaxWeberSixFriedrich, München
abstractness, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren
paint it, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen
Crown Gallery, Knokke
2018
Nunu Fine Art, Taipeh / Taipei City
Petra Gut Contemporary, Zürich / Zurich
Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld
2017
Re: Einladungskarte, Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
Ritter/Zamet c/o Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig
Mark Peet Visser Gallery, ‘s-Hertogenbosch / Den Bosch
Luca Tommasi Arte Contemporanea, Mailand / Milan
Gaa Gallery, Provincetown
2016
Schule von Freiburg, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg im Breisgau
pool, Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf
Galerie Nosbaum Reding, Luxemburg / Luxembourg
Lisa Ungar / Charim Galerie, Wien / Vienna
Playlist, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld
Diffusion, Anima Gallery, Doha
2015
Nunu Fine Art, Taipeh / Taipei City
Fleece, Laleh June Galerie, Basel
2014
Sur le Motif, Galerie Perrotin, Paris
Galerie Nosbaum Reding, Luxemburg / Luxembourg
2013
Undertones, Wasserman Projects, Detroit
Johyun Galerie Busan
crystal & fruits, Galerie Michael Janssen, Singapur
chrome, Dirimart, Istanbul
2012
Galerie Nosbaum Reding, Luxemburg / Luxembourg
Galeria Filomena Soares, Lissabon / Lisbon
滴 drop, Galerie Perrotin, Hongkong
2011
Panorama, Kunstforum und Kunstverein Schwäbisch Hall, Schwäbisch Hall
Galerie Max Weber Six Friedrich, München / Munich
Zellweger Arte Contemporanea, Lugano
2010
Kith an Kin, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
Next of kin, Dirimart, Istanbul
2009
All you need, MMKK Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt
Distrito 4, Madrid
Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin
Galerie Six Friedrich Lisa Ungar, München / Munich
2008
Currents, Columbus Museum of Arts, Columbus
Galeria Filomena Soares, Lissabon / Lisbon
2007
wheel, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg / Nuremberg
Reliance, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
2006
Capas de gelatina / Layers of jelly, CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Málaga
Distrito 4, Madrid
Cialis, Xanax…, Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery, Miami
2005
New Paintings, Crown Gallery, Brüssel / Brussels
OMR Gallery, Mexico City (mit / with Thomas Grünfeld)
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MERCURY
2020
180 cm x 130 cm | 70.8 inches x 51.1inches
Epoxy on Canvas
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MALIBU
2020
130 cm x 180 cm | 51.1 inches x 70.8 inches
Epoxy on Canvas
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