Peter Zimmermann’s Methodology-Metapictures: Oil Painting Solo
Exhibition
After 5 years, German artist Peter Zimmermann’s oil paintings finally return to the exhibition, leading the audience to explore the possibilities between colors and technological images. In Zimmermann’s more than 30 years career, he is known for the colorful epoxy works. However, during the the mid-1990s, in response to the technological breakthrough of visual images filling in people’s life in different forms, Zimmermann officially shifted his focus to exploring the digitalization of vision, opening its "meta" creative method. Zimmermann disassembled and deformed his personal image archive, then performed an algorithm on images, which he later completed on the canvas in a hand-painted manner with an atmosphere very different from the epoxy resin works.
This exhibition presents several of Zimmermann's new oil paintings, that started in 2019 and were completed in 2021. Although the making process is long and sophisticated, the oil paintings still reflect a more dynamic and fantasy biological sense. The brushstrokes are not only a single element in the composition, but also belong to a group of brushstrokes connecting an interesting association, to show the artist's gesture and rhythm in the process. In addition to such a deep sense of space, the color gradient between brushstrokes also expresses a kind of silk feeling.
Artist
Peter Zimmermann