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Peter Zimmermann <\/strong><\/a>is internationally renowned as an outstanding exponent of conceptual painting. And now, for the very first time, he will be presenting an extensive solo show in his hometown, Freiburg. Zimmermann has radically transformed the rooms in the Museum f\u00fcr Neue Kunst<\/strong><\/a> to create a massive, integrated, walk-in work: the floor becomes a canvas, the exhibition venue a colossal spatial frieze covering some 425 m2. In order to experience it in its totality, visitors are invited to become part of the work by simply sitting, standing or walking around. The confrontation between the epoxy floor piece and a new series in oils \u2013 shown for the first time in this grouping \u2013 will form the centre of the show. Zimmermann has been exploring the potential of painting ever since the mid-1980s. Deploying digital filters and computer programmes, he uses templates \u2013 such as photographs, film stills or diagrams \u2013 in unusual ways, transferring them onto canvas in several layers of transparent epoxy resin. This manipulation gives rise to abstract, fluid shapes that radiate an immense visual power.
\nFreiburg School <\/i>not only revisits the museum\u2019s previous incarnation at the beginning of the twentieth century as a girls\u2019 school; the title also draws on the artist\u2019s inveterate scepticism towards common means of education and communication, such as encyclopaedias, travel guides and treatises on picture theory. He discusses the shift from the centrally-organised dissemination of knowledge to crowdsourcing, from the encyclopaedia to Wikipedia et al.\u00a0 Within this context, the shiny surface of the paintings and their multi-layered composition recall the computer-based logic of browser tabs, screen icons or windows. Thus, in this intense engagement with the influence of digital media on current painting, Freiburg School <\/i>presents the complex, painterly and highly colourful cosmos of Peter Zimmermann.<\/p>\n

March 19, 2016 \u2013 June 19, 2016 <\/em>
\nMuseum f\u00fcr Neue Kunst, Freiburg<\/em><\/p>\n