Peter Zimmermann
Saturday, 3 October 2009
As much as I detested Biology in school, I have long since realised and acknowledged that nature continually offers up beautiful examples of form and colour. Cell structures, for example, informed me of the power scale and repetition hold when attempting to induce an sense of awe. These paintings, as abstract as they are, reminded me of cell structures, albeit saturated with colour: organic yet somehow scientific - I suppose that is Biology, or my summation of it anyway…
…Adopting techniques dear to action and Colour Field painters, the German artist Peter Zimmermann bastardised both with astonishing acumen… His lollipop-coloured expanses of epoxy resin poured, dripped or dabbed on virginal canvases would have incensed Clement Greenberg, since they owe as much to Warhol, Peter Halley and Gerhard Richter as they do to Pollock and Morris Louis…
In his work, he projects various types of digital images onto canvases, then carefully transcribes and colours them… Zimmermann’s efforts are most compelling when he employs a Pop palette on a sizable scale…
Additional text written by Paul B. Franklin for Art in America. Please visit Zimmermann’s site to view more of his work.