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Peter Vahlefeld
Germany
Artist highlights
- Acclaimed Artist
- International Exposure
- Art Fair Participant
- Prizewinner
- Favorited by galleries
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
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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 : 23.6x47.2in
About this artwork
Acrylic, acrylic based medium, archival varnish UV protection, oil, and archival pigment prints (collage) on canvas. The artwork comes ready to hang.
Treating the canvas as his city, Peter Vahlefeld has been trying to find ways to stretch a feeling of time by layering different realities. For the artist the city is a palimpsest, which lives through constant overwriting and overpainting. His painting process is about the potential for an emotional… connection, beyond what he can express through words, incorporated letters, and logos of hotels. His gesture with thickly applied oil paint is hovering somewhere between inscription and erasure. Places disappear, are being redefined or are taken to exaggeration. But always something remains, often loaded with enigma and mystery like a cryptic fifth or sixth surviving layer on canvas. He is trying to deliver not only a visual translation of a place in time, but with that, the scent, the sound, and the feeling of the city.
Treating the canvas as his city, Peter Vahlefeld has been trying to find ways to stretch a feeling of time by layering different realities. For the artist the city is a palimpsest, which lives through constant overwriting and overpainting. His painting process is about the potential for an emotional… connection, beyond what he can express through words, incorporated letters, and logos of hotels. His gesture with thickly applied oil paint is hovering somewhere between inscription and erasure. Places disappear, are being redefined or are taken to exaggeration. But always something remains, often loaded with enigma and mystery like a cryptic fifth or sixth surviving layer on canvas. He is trying to deliver not only a visual translation of a place in time, but with that, the scent, the sound, and the feeling of the city.
Peter Vahlefeld
Germany
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Acclaimed Artist
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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.
Peter Vahlefeld has participated in many solo exhibitions in Germany as well as in annual art fairs such as Art Karlsruhe.
Peter Vahlefeld
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$6,800
