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Peter Kogler

09.22.06 - 10.15.06
Installation — Bassin de la Garonne

Peter Kogler, exhibition view, Pont-Neuf, Toulouse 2006
© Printemps de septembre, photo André Morin

Born in 1959 in Innsbruck (Austria), he lives in Vienna.

 

Since the early 1990s, Peter Kogler has been applying his modular, rhizome-like motifs in architectural ensembles ranging from tents to buildings, outside and in, alike, in the form of paintings, silkscreened papers, and projections. Ants, tubes, and brains are part of his basic vocabulary. They are computer generated, and intertwine, often repeated ad infinitum like an organic or electronic network. By pushing Pollock's all-over method to extremes, Kogler is heir at once to the Austrian Baroque of fresco-covered palaces, and to Minimalism and Pop Art. Between ornamental illusionism and modernist seriality, he constructs a vision of the world with a disconcerting maze-like structure.

 

For le Printemps de septembre, Kogler intervenes in the urban space, and more especially along the Garonne river area.