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Acrylic, acrylic based medium, archival varnish UV protection, fabrics, oil, and archival pigment prints (collage) on canvas. The artwork comes ready to hang.

Transforming hotel stationery into the domain of painting, the artwork does not concern itself with content; in fact, it’s all about composition. Canvas, fabrics and pigment prints were covered with various applications of paint made with spray cans, towels, brooms and brushes, and a devotion to painterly processes and excesses, creating an impression of depth through overlapping layers.

While letters and numbers, as means of language-based expression, may have initiated the procedure of processing, they loose the initial meaning, and the significance now restricts itself to that of signs within a set space. Thus the work is simultaneously abstract and representational.

The painting starts playfully, according to a mood for a sensation or just to get rid of the content. Usually the first move will be painted over or painted out. Moves and counter-moves are initiated by similar violations. It is just decision after decision—an ongoing process of putting something onto canvas and then editing it, then putting something down and editing it again, updating Rauschenberg’s antiformalist handling of painting as a flat surface on which signs of various origins and meanings can be piled up.
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Acrylic, acrylic based medium, archival varnish UV protection, fabrics, oil, and archival pigment prints (collage) on canvas. The artwork comes ready to hang.

Transforming hotel stationery into the domain of painting, the artwork does not concern itself with content; in fact, it’s all about composition. Canvas, fabrics and pigment prints were covered with various applications of paint made with spray cans, towels, brooms and brushes, and a devotion to painterly processes and excesses, creating an impression of depth through overlapping layers.

While letters and numbers, as means of language-based expression, may have initiated the procedure of processing, they loose the initial meaning, and the significance now restricts itself to that of signs within a set space. Thus the work is simultaneously abstract and representational.

The painting starts playfully, according to a mood for a sensation or just to get rid of the content. Usually the first move will be painted over or painted out. Moves and counter-moves are initiated by similar violations. It is just decision after decision—an ongoing process of putting something onto canvas and then editing it, then putting something down and editing it again, updating Rauschenberg’s antiformalist handling of painting as a flat surface on which signs of various origins and meanings can be piled up.
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Untitled New York Painting

Peter Vahlefeld

Germany

Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 47.2 W x 47.2 H x 2 D in

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Acrylic, acrylic based medium, archival varnish UV protection, fabrics, oil, and archival pigment prints (collage) on canvas. The artwork comes ready to hang. Transforming hotel stationery into the domain of painting, the artwork does not concern itself with content; in fact, it’s all about composition. Canvas, fabrics and pigment prints were covered with various applications of paint made with spray cans, towels, brooms and brushes, and a devotion to painterly processes and excesses, creating an impression of depth through overlapping layers. While letters and numbers, as means of language-based expression, may have initiated the procedure of processing, they loose the initial meaning, and the significance now restricts itself to that of signs within a set space. Thus the work is simultaneously abstract and representational. The painting starts playfully, according to a mood for a sensation or just to get rid of the content. Usually the first move will be painted over or painted out. Moves and counter-moves are initiated by similar violations. It is just decision after decision—an ongoing process of putting something onto canvas and then editing it, then putting something down and editing it again, updating Rauschenberg’s antiformalist handling of painting as a flat surface on which signs of various origins and meanings can be piled up.

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Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:47.2 W x 47.2 H x 2 D in

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Peter Vahlefeld's visceral artworks combine a rigorous, process-based practice, continually rethinking the possibilities of painting. Using references to a broad array of sources, including art history, literature, and pop culture, he creates paintings that alternate between flat experience and dimensionality. Perfectly poised between European and American traditions (Art Informel, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art), his work combines complexity into a visual richness that is neither figurative nor abstract. The paintings unfold in an intricate, unpredictable interaction of layers and excess—a constant juggling of paint, prints, fabrics, mediums and effect. They draw their actuality from the collision between the visual codes of mass media and the subjective traces of painterly expression. Peter Vahlefeld studied at Parsons School of Design, NYC (BFA) and currently lives in Berlin. He has participated in a variety of solo exhibitions, art fairs, and venues such as Neumeister Fine Art Auctioneers (Munich), and Sotheby's (Vienna). His work can be found in private and corporate collections throughout Europe, the United States, Asia, and India. Peter Vahlefeld was featured on the German television channel ZDF.

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