Saturday 21 January 2017

Müller, Peter (Germany) Verlach Friedichrodaer Hefde

General Note:
As stated in my Blog on one of Peters books for An Encyclopedia of Everything, http://an-encyclopedia-of-everything.blogspot.com ,I don’t know much about Peter Müller, except to say that I think he is a prolific, generous artist who works in multiples with digitally altered photographs being his main interest.  Further conversation with him has revealed that his multiple edition books are up to edition of 15 and he recombines common articles of ‘unnoticed beauty’ in order to see their structure.  This act removes the ordinary, unnoticed products/byproducts of consumerism into the realm of art.  The ‘thing’ becomes an open-ended experiment and can be seen as a collection of data from a specific place which gives testimony to the context of a particular journey.

diffuse II

Unnumbered edition book of inkjet prints, digitally altered photographs 21cm x 9cm x 1cm, Glue bound, composite hard card cover (800grm?), 80gm paper.  The images are reflections, shadows, light rays - visual information which is rendered abstract by the manner in which it has been photographed/digitally manipulated.  The inkjet printed nature of the images also renders them unclear, adding to title context.

Give aways for the deceased
Unnumbered edition book of inkjet prints, digitally altered photographs 30cm x 9.5cm x .5cm, composite hard card cover (400grm?), 40 gram paper.  Cropped photographs which render abstractions in food and commercial goods/the mundane, photographed in Japan.   A play on ‘a dead giveaway’?

japonais
Unnumbered edition book of  36 inkjet prints, digitally altered photographs, including collage, art filters and overlays.  Glue bound, 21cm x 9cm x 1cm, hard  cover coated with paper made from dried leaves, cloth spine,  (800grm?) 80 gram paper.  japonais is French for Japanese - things pertaining to Japan, its people or its language.