Museum Shop Sunflowers Cushion (2015) Painting by Peter Vahlefeld

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A museum shop merchandising of Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers was used as a readymade on which the act of painting took place. The over-painted printed matter has been digitalized and reworked on the computer. Parts of it have been printed out as pigmented Ultrachrome inkjet prints and mounted on canvas (collage) with a transparent medium UV protection. [...]
A museum shop merchandising of Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers was used as a readymade on which the act of painting took place. The over-painted printed matter has been digitalized and reworked on the computer.



Parts of it have been printed out as pigmented Ultrachrome inkjet prints and mounted on canvas (collage) with a transparent medium UV protection. The over-painting serves as an under-painting that loops behind expressionist brushwork. Unlike on the computer, where the functional logic is based on described rules, the material on canvas becomes the topic as a sequence of actions—taking on an almost sculptural character.



The result is a multilayered composition in which figure and ground seem to continually shift between the analog painting, and its digital counterpart.

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Peter Vahlefeld is a contemporary award-winning multimedia artist based in Berlin. The whole social fabric of our society is used as a point of departure for abstraction. He creates his works on the foundation [...]

Peter Vahlefeld is a contemporary award-winning multimedia artist based in Berlin. The whole social fabric of our society is used as a point of departure for abstraction. He creates his works on the foundation of art marketing materials such as auction house or museum promotional flyers or posters. On this structure, the picture is built up layer by layer using various colors and materials. Painting pigments, as well as a variety of other materials like photo fragments and textiles, give Vahlefeld works their distinct color, tone, and structure. Finally, the images can be classified as startling, exhilarating, colorful, dynamic, rugged, or tactile, owing to their contrasts between analogue and digital painting, the compatibility of many color materials, and elements of production and destruction.

Peter Vahlefeld was born in 1967, in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from the Parsons School of Design, New York. He has participated in many solo exhibitions and art fairs like art Karlsruhe in Germany on a regular basis or at auctions such as Sotheby’s in Vienna and Neumeister, Munich. Peter Vahlefeld currently lives and works in Berlin.


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