Peter Zimmermann 彼得．辛莫曼

Peter Zimmermann

German artist Peter Zimmermann (b. 1956) was born in Freiburg im Breisgau and is based in Cologne. He received his art education at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. Early in his practice, he transformed the covers and titles of atlases, art books, travel guides, and dictionaries into what he termed “Book Cover Paintings,” executed in epoxy on canvas. Zimmermann's cardboard works explore the written word's spatial distortion and thus question the relationship between text and image. His chromatic epoxy resin images derive from digital templates, such as photos, film stills, or diagrams, which Zimmermann distorts through graphical algorithms and transfers onto the canvas in numerous transparent layers of epoxy resin. Since 2014, he has built upon this conceptual approach through oil painting. Zimmerman is currently working with sticker-based installation, which extends his long-standing exploration of image translation while simultaneously liberating painting from the confines of the canvas, transforming it into a spatial and collaborative mode of engagement. Treated as modular visual units, the stickers can be repeated, dismantled, and reconfigured to generate imagery directly within the exhibition space. Questions concerning the relationship between the original and its depiction and an engagement with the concept of the surface lie at the center of his creative output. 

Zimmermann’s exhibition history includes solo exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila (Manila, Philippines), Nunu Fine Art (Taipei, Taiwan), Leopold-Hoesch-Museum (Düren, Germany) and CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, (Málaga, Spain). His work has been included in group shows including the Biennial of The South in Panama 2013 (Panama City) and at institutions such as the Kunstmuseum Bonn (Bonn, Germany) and Centre Cultural Sa Nostra (Palma de Majorca, Spain). Zimmermann's work is in numerous private and public collections, including Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manila; Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris; Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus; New Orleans Museum of Modern Art, New Orleans; and the The Farjam Foundation, Dubai.  

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