Detail from Künstliche Verdichtung, 2019
Hidden object pictures
In a playful and experimental way, Peer Kriesel immerses the viewer in a surreal and fabulous world. At the same time, he confronts them with their very own absurd world of data flow, overstimulation and information overload – a world full of absurdities and humorously weird things.
In his Wimmelbilder—small, condensed miniature paintings/drawings, as well as large-format, detail-rich universes—one can lose oneself and embark on a journey of discovery through an entire universe. Overloaded with surreal figures and creatures as well as recurring and newly combined elements in his works, they are indecipherable at first glance.
Künstliche Verdichtung, watercolor/acrylic/pigment ink on paper, 140cm × 200cm (four parts), 2019
In his Wimmelbilder, the artist is always concerned with the interplay of order, structure, and balance.
Geometric elements and lines therefore appear more frequently, dividing the chaos and perhaps attempting to tame it and harmonize it into balance.
In the Essences and Lines series, Kriesel makes the teeming mass legible by extracting concentrates or essences from a great chaos and presenting them in sequences or arranged in condensed lines.
Sehr!, From the Essences module series, watercolor/pigment ink on paper, 50cm × 40cm, 2020
Zwei Welten, Aquarell/Pigmenttinte auf Papier, 100cm × 140cm, 2021
