35 St James’s Pl, London Peter Vahlefeld

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35 St James’s Pl, London

Peter Vahlefeld

2024 • Germany • Acrylic, Oil on Canvas

79 x 55 in

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Peter Vahlefeld

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Artwork details

Medium : Acrylic, Oil on Canvas
Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
Dimensions : 78.7x55.1in

About this artwork

Acrylic, acrylic based medium, archival varnish UV protection, oil, powdered pigments like gold and copper, fabrics, and pigment prints on canvas.
This artwork traded representational subject matter (hotel stationery used by The Dukes, London) for an exploration of the medium of painting itself. Mixing powdered pigments like gold and copper with oil paint and different varnishes, pigment prints and fabrics, Peter Vahlefeld relinquished his controlled… approach to painting, allowing the final result to be guided by the behavior of the given material. Layers of media are applied and scraped off again. Binders oxidize the metallic pigments, resulting in a deep chrome effect of different shades of green and rust. Information is added, deleted or overpainted. Acts of defacement, like urban demarcation and graffiti revealing flaws and cracks on the pictorial surface. Peter Vahlefeld takes obvious pleasure in fucking up the surface of his paintings, breaking the image as much as making it.

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Peter Vahlefeld

Germany

Credentials

International Exposure
Art Fair Participant
Prizewinner
Favorited by galleries
Featured in gallery curations
Works on commission

« In my work, I deal with pictures that already exist and liberate them from their originally intended narration and function. »

Starting from the symbols of our society - an increasingly psychologically scrutinized communication through text and images - Peter Vahlefeld breaks up the context of such familiar obviousness with artistic means and incorporates it into his painting. Some motifs mutate into completely abstract color spaces, while other pictures still reveal objective details such as typography or figurative elements. In his overpaintings he thus stages a dialectical relationship between the visible and the hidden and thus a beautiful game of hiding and revealing. His examination is focused on the expressive gesture of the medium, the process of painting and the exhaustion of a formal and content-related motif. His painting is painting about painting.
Peter Vahlefeld has participated in many solo exhibitions in Germany as well as in annual art fairs such as Art Karlsruhe.

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Peter Vahlefeld

35 St James’s Pl, London

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