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Dreher, Peter
1932 Mannheim - 2020
«Tag um Tag ist guter Tag (day by day is good day)».
Oil on strong cardboard. Verso signed, with stamped title and personal dedication «für [...] mit besonders guten Wünschen für
H 20,
«In 1972, I created my first single picture of a glass. Since 1974, at least 50 paintings have been created each year, showing an empty water glass on a white table surface against a white background. The painted glass is in natural size in the picture. The external conditions, such as lighting, distances, picture format remain unchanged. [...]
I chose the glass through the need to do something very simple.
After six years of painting grey surfaces, in which the grey painted surface moved only slightly, for example in the shape of a plate, then by painting light, then by enlarging objects tenfold - all not really simple.
An object that everyone knows seemed simple to me. Simple not in the sense of form, but in the sense of everyday perception, which we do not perceive as unusual at all, which belongs to our use without thinking about it.» Peter Dreher, from: https://www.peter-dreher.de/TagumTag.
Provenance: gift of the artist; since then private collection High Rhine.
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