
Exhibition
Gallery Weekend Berlin 2022
29 Apr 2022 – 01 May 2022
Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Pieter Schoolwerth explores and experiments with the effects of generalized abstraction on representations of the human form in painting.
Grounded in European paintings from the 16th to the 19th centuries, his works are complex compositions combining drawn, printed, and painted pictorial elements.Through his unique process, Schoolwerth traces and overlaps the contours of figures from premodern narrative tableaux to create permutations of a single hybridized time. His method reflects the destabilized process of identity construction in an age characterized by increasingly abstract social relations. Schoolwerth literalizes the formation, superimposition, and alienation of the contemporary body through the manipulation of multiple media and layers of material content.
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