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Email PageArchive Peter Piller
January 11, 2007- February 10, 2007
Reception: January 11, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Peter Piller
Andrew Kreps Gallery
525 W 22nd St Peter Piller Decoration + Munition (2000) |
Archive Peter Piller contains a mixture of groupings from categories that emerged in the process of sorting these images, and it is through these categories that Piller's poignant and quietly tragic vision of everyday life becomes apparent. Yet, the meaningful moments were unintended by the original photographer. Piller says they're 'the kind of photographs that the photographer who took them can't even remember. They're shot one day, printed the next, and garbage the morning after'.
The exhibition contains selections from Archive categories such as "Policemen Searching," "Vandalism," and "Projection Areas," which is a series of newspaper images that depict ambiguous desolate spaces, which the artists has chosen based on their potential for open interpretation, despite their original context as illustrations for topical newspaper articles.
Archive Peter Piller also contains photos from his More Beautiful from Above series. This is a series of aerial photos of suburban homes in West Germany that were given to Piller by a firm that was hoping to sell the prints back to the homeowners, but failed (which they were planning on discarding). Piller subsequently archived and categorized the images into striking series such as homes that were built next to graveyards, and homes that were captured mid-carwash.
Peter Piller won the Bâlose Art Prize for his ArtStatement at ArtBasel 2006, and has exhibited widely at museums and galleries internationally including Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, The Netherlands, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Frehrking Wieseh–fer, Cologne, Barbara Wien, Berlin, and ProjectSD, Barcelona. He also has upcoming exhibitions at Kunstverein Salzburg, Austria and Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland.
Art Reviews of Archive Peter Piller
| New York Times February 9, 2007 | Holland Cotter | "...Mr. Piller’s art, seen here in a strong New York gallery debut, consists of sorting selections from his archival holdings into thematic groups to suggest portentous stories. Bland shots of deserted roads look as sinister as crime scenes. Unexplained shots of bonfires default to records of mass destruction. Daily life, if uncaptioned, is a fraught and perilous state...." |
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