Peter Zimmermann: Next of Kin and Chrome

This catalogue was published within the context of two solo exhibitions of Peter Zimmermann that took place at Dirimart Nisantasi, Next of Kin on March 26–April 25, 2010 and Chrome on April 4–May 6, 2013. The catalogue features a text by Joe Houston together with works exhibited in these two exhibitions. Peter Zimmermann’s paintings reinterpret the traditional art of painting in relation with modernism and Color Field Movement. Working process of the artist begins with gathering the visuals collected by the artist physically or by scanning, and then evolves by deforming these visuals at computer. Images that become unrecognizable are transferred on canvas and given a form by means of colorful resin poured on them. It can be said that these compositions of Zimmermann, famous for the use of epoxy for more than twenty years, in a kind of alchemical interaction, are the products of his talent on the perception of color and light. Peter Zimmermann was exhibited at many museums such as the Museum Moderner Kunst Klagenfurt (2009); Museum fu¨r neue Kunst, Freiburg (2016); and Baden-Wu¨rttemberg (2017). His works are included in the collections of Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart; and Museum Moderner Kunst, Frankfurt am Main.

Joe Houston is President of the Association of Professional Art Advisors (APAA), the standard setting organization for the advisory industry. He is a private advisor and curator of the Hallmark Art Collection–the nation’s most enduring corporate collection–based in Kansas City, Missouri. Joe previously held curatorial positions at the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio; Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; and Rockford Art Museum in Illinois. He has organized major exhibitions on a wide array of subjects ranging from Impressionism to Post-digital art and has curated special projects with such contemporary artists as Rona Pondick, Kehinde Wiley, and Peter Zimmermann. Joe writes and lectures extensively on modern and contemporary art.