Peter Zimmermann's Palladium acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Manila

Palladium, 2022, epoxy on canvas

Nunu Fine Art is pleased to announce the donation of Palladium, a work by German artist Peter Zimmermann, to The M Museum in Manila, Philippines, where it will enter the museum's permanent collection. 

Born in 1956 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, and currently based in Cologne, Zimmermann began his artistic career in the 1980s. Using the covers and titles of atlases, art books, travel guides, and dictionaries as source material, he developed his signature "Book Cover Paintings," transforming these images into visually striking abstract works through the use of oil paint and epoxy resin. Through the layering of colors and the fluid qualities of his materials, Zimmermann creates large-scale works of deep luminosity and rich complexity, in which seamlessly blended gradients of color are rendered on aluminum composite panels to produce an effect that is almost liquid in appearance. 

Palladium was exhibited at Nunu Fine Art Taipei in 2023, where it received widespread attention. As part of the two-city exhibition Painting Rules, co-organized by Nunu Fine Art and The M Museum in Manila, audiences were invited to experience the work firsthand and to reconsider the formal language and perceptual experience of contemporary painting at a time of rapid transformation in the production and consumption of images. The acquisition of Palladium marks a significant milestone in the artist's career and adds an important chapter to the growing landscape of contemporary art collections across Asia.