Contact adds a new dimension to the relationship between sight, touch, and digital abstraction aesthetics.
Dirimart is pleased to announce Contact, Peter Zimmermann’s sixth solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition features the artist’s digital-based oil paintings, which were created by using graphic algorithms to modify digital templates.
Zimmermann reinterprets traditional painting through the prism of Modernism and the Colour Field movement by subjecting found visuals, such as photographs, film stills, and diagrams, to algorithmic manipulation, rendering them unrecognisable and transferring them to the canvas using epoxy. Contact presents the artist’s artworks he created between 2019 and 2024, featuring surfaces created with brush or finger strokes, allowing the viewer to deeply explore the connections between sight and touch in a digital age.
The exhibition explores the idea of vision as a tactile experience, where the eye ‘feels’ objects by scanning the surroundings – a conceptualisation shaped by the long-standing influence of philosophy and natural science. In the digital age, the interaction between the hand and screen integrates our visual and tactile perceptions, demonstrating how closely intertwined these senses have become.
Contact offers a distinctive experience in interpretating digital and tactile realms. The exhibition can be visited at Dirimart Dolapdere from 24 October to 24 November 2024.
