Detail from Übersee, 2020
Overpaintings
The overpaintings have been an integral part of Berlin artist Peer Kriesel’s oeuvre since 2012, and in this series of works the artist uses “designed” print products as painting surfaces that have served their original function. He uses a wide variety of materials, from canceled tickets, admission tickets and invitations to exhibition openings to postcards, atlas maps and large-format nautical charts.
Peer Kriesel is fascinated by these obsolete documents of contemporary history, which are becoming increasingly rare in a time of digital transformation and a digital society and can serve as a kind of mirror for our values and identity.
Übersee, watercolor/acrylic/pigment ink on paper (overpainted nautical chart from 1978), 73cm × 103cm, 2020
Just Air, watercolor/pigment ink on paper, 48cm × 26cm, 2020
FRTZNABSTRCTN #642, oil/acrylic on canvas, 50cm × 40cm
1849, overpainting (BVG map)
Watercolor/acrylic/pigment ink on paper, 7,5cm × 6cm, 2022
Strippenzieher, watercolor/acrylic/pigment ink on paper (postcard)
14cm × 9,5cm, 2022
Mandel, overpainting from the Risque series, watercolor/pigment ink on paper (photo), 14cm × 8.5cm, 2020
Viking Bank, watercolor/acrylic/pigment ink on paper (overpainted nautical chart from 1966), 74cm × 108cm, 2020
Die Begegnung/The Encounter, watercolor/acrylic/pigment ink on paper, 54cm × 44cm, 2021
Vorteil, Achim series, watercolor/pigment ink on paper (card) and string, 8,3cm × 14,4cm, 2020
Deine Mutti, Achim series, watercolor/pigment ink on paper, approx. 15cm × 10cm, 2019
Clothing And Equipment Record, Achim series, watercolor/pigment ink on paper, ca. 18cm × 32cm, 2019