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About this artwork
- Medium
- Acrylic, Oil on Canvas
- Other details
- Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions
- 53.1x78.7in
Peter Vahlefeld starts to use the magazine page (readymade) as a medium. The furious, jagged marks appear as if he was attacking the printed matter (a double page of an Elaine Sturtevant ad) with a physicality that was reducing representational forms to a purely emotional response. Characterized by its concentrated materiality, the artwork… is constructed from intersecting lines, fields, and swaths of color applied with brooms, brushes and hands. By varying the force with which he dragged his tools across the canvas, Vahlefeld added and, crucially, removed areas of paint to generate a highly unpredictable surface.
About the creator
Credentials
- International Exposure
- Art Fair Participant
- Prizewinner
- Works on commission
« In my work, I deal with pictures that already exist and liberate them from their originally intended narration and function. »
Born in Tokyo, Japan, Peter Vahlefeld studied at the Parsons School of Design, New York, receiving an Honours degree in 1990. He has participated in many solo exhibitions and art fairs like art Karlsruhe (Germany) on a regular basis or at auctions such as Sotheby’s in Vienna and Neumeister, Munich. His work was featured on German Television (ZDF) for a project on Robert Mapplethorpe and his works are held in collections across the world. Peter Vahlefeld currently lives and works in Berlin.