Peter Holl: The Constellations
Galerie Juliètte Jongma, Amsterdam
27 November 2004 – 7 January 2005
The exhibition 'The Constellations' is the first solo exhibition of the German artist PETER HOLL (1971) in the Netherlands.
Peter Holl displays in his artworks a clear reference towards he American photorealistic movement from the 70s. This movement rebelled against the subjective way of painting and expressed themselfs against the usual content and expectations of a portrait. Everything is superficial there's no depth within the image at the most it is indifferent, 'it is what it is'.
Peter Holl seems to implement this theorie. He did not choose reproductions of selfmade photographs nor does he portray his friends but he focusses on adapted, artficial images from (fashion) magazines. His subject choise seems to have a strong reference towards distant painting. The artist isn't in surch of fixing a moment like his American (pre-andisters) but in search of an optical play. His portraits show clear signs of several images mixed with one-and-other. Your eye tries to unravel their riddle and play with the wish to crack there code. At the same time it is clear that it is not in our advantage to decifer, the challenge is within the looking itself.
The exhibition 'The Constellations' which means 'stars' or a configuration of celestial body's seen from the earth, gives a reference to the mathematics. A mathematician uses this discription for the movement of the body with time as the fourth dimension. Herewith time becomes as equal as spacious coordinates. Time as a fourth dimension is mostly used in astronomy. The stars we see are seen from the past.
The artist gives with this element reference towards artists like Marcel Duchamp and movements like dadaisme and futurism where researches of movement where represented. Peter Holl gives a contemporary representation of this element.
GALERIE JULIETTE JONGMA
Gerard Douplein 23, 1073XE Amsterdam
