“Right from the start, my primary focus has always been on the image, i.e. on different ways of painting pictures. In a sense, I set myself tasks for which I seek concrete solutions through painting while working on the picture. […] It always starts with a decision: what am I going to paint?”
Peter Bömmels (born 1951) creates works using acrylic and polymer clay, mixed media with human hair, and marble sculptures. But above all, his focus has always been on painting. Since his artistic beginnings with the Cologne artist group Mülheimer Freiheit, the self-taught artist has remained true to a carefree, trivial aesthetic and populates surreal spaces with his figures and hybrid creatures in his unique visual language, reduced to essential elements and yet open and ambiguous. His pictures tell of big questions and thoughts about the absurdity of our everyday lives as well as mythical dimensions from fairy tales, memories and the ‘eternal cycle’. After the thought-provoking years of minimalism and conceptual art, his humour seems like a liberating blow – even today.
In our exhibition Gänge geh’n noch we are showing a selection of new paintings by Peter Bömmels.
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