Peter Kogler
27.03 - 22.05.10

Opening March 26th, 2010
6-8pm

Mitterrand+Sanz is very pleased to present recent works by Peter Kogler.

Although, during the past twenty years, the Viennese artist was exhibited throughout some of the world’s most prominent art locations (Museu Colleccao Berardo, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, MOMA, Mudam, Museum Tinguely, Mamco, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Casino Luxembourg, 49. Biennale di Venezia,  Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Galerie Mezzanin, Galerie Krinzinger, …) this will be his first solo exhibition in Zurich.

Peter Kogler has  developed  an  approach  that  involves  a  series  of  recurring  motifs  that create a  mental  landscape.  Ants,  brains,  globes,  light  bulbs  and  interlacing  designs  offer variations  on  elements  of vocabulary  while  retaining  an  aspect  that  is  purified,  literally essential. Digitally modelled  then  organised  on  varied  surfaces  and  within  the  space,  in  a  two  and three‐dimensional  form,  these  elements  create  many  social  metaphors.  

For  this  exhibition  the  artist  appropriates  both  the  walls  and  the  space  by permutating these  motifs  from  the  picture  to  everyday  furniture  such  as  a  table  or bench, thus  hallmarking  his  elaborate  vision  of  sculpture.  

Without  doubt,  Peter  Kogler  masters all  the  elements  of  a  system  whose  categories  are carefully  labelled.  He  is  undeniably one  of  the  few  who  attain  a  constant  aesthetic progression  because  he  never  finds himself  trapped  in  a  corner.  On  the  contrary  he erodes  the  margins  and  extends  the contours  of  his  own  geography,  whose  landscape recalls  the  mountains  and  valleys  of his  native  country.  

His  undertaking  for  each  installation  demonstrates  his  will  to  differ  and  displace,  not  in the  sense  of  arrangement  itself,  but  in  the  purely  dialectical  sense  of  the  advances  that have  always  been  specific  to  Viennese  modernism.  

HD images are available by contacting Fabian Lang at fabian@mitterrand-sanz.com