The artist collects pictures familiar to everyone. He finds them in the archives of regional newspapers or in the picture collections of a company which sells arial views of houses. Freed from their original context they appear to lose any significance.
Solo show
Peter Piller (born 1968, lives in Leipzig) collects pictures familiar
to everyone. He finds them in the archives of regional newspapers or in the picture
collections of a company which sells arial views of houses. Freed from their
original context they appear to lose any significance. By putting them together and
classifiying them they look like clichees of commercial photography on first look.
However,
a second glance opens up new meanings and unusual relationships. The
titles of
the series are very often the original picture titles or notices such as
"Nothing to
see yet", "Regional Lighting", "Jewel/Blemish" or "More beautiful from
Earth".
What at first seems to be a detail at the edge of the photo can be the
start of
a story. In search of the undefinable picture, the artist has cut out
around 7000
newspaper photos in the last 10 years and has archived them in 100
categories.
His exhibition projects are chains of motives rich in associations,
organised and
individually deciphered by the observer. By multiplying and serially
ordering,
new shifts of value and significance occur and the ideal of the absolute
picture
is annulled.
Opening: february 14, 2007
Salzburger Kunstverein
Hellbrunner Strabe 3 - Salzburg