NYAB Event - Peter Buechler "Plight and Premonition"

Peter Buechler "Plight and Premonition"

Masters & Pelavin

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Plight and Premonition presents German artist, Peter Buechler’s first solo exhibition in the US. The show will include a selection of new portraits in a variety of styles the artist has become known for.

Buechler’s pictures are simplistic at first glance; but, become increasingly complicated with the more time a viewer spends with them. Known for dividing his paintings into grids consisting of small fields of color, Buechler’s “pixilated” squares literally block out identifiable components of his subject adding mystery and intrigue. As the viewer stands in front of the picture, there is an oscillation between the object itself and the abstracted subject shown—a constant struggle between what you believe you see; what you want to see; and what is actually there to be seen.

The painter’s primary concern is not that lofty or expressive something, a motif or a formulation by the hand of a particular, distinctive artist. What is crucial for him is the double reference to endlessly produced and published reproductions by digital cameras and cellular telephones. All Buechler’s motifs are taken from the digital world. The artist chooses these images from the innumerable possibilities and subject them to a transformation, using an exacting and time-consuming painting process that wrests their arbitrary, everyday quality from them.