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Paintings / Enamel on aluminum
Signed and Dated
12 Unnamed Colors by Peter Wegner
Robert Fontaine Gallery
2002
Sheet Size: 72 x 12 x 1.125 inches
Signed
Condition: Pristine
Price on Application
2002
Sheet Size: 72 x 12 x 1.125 inches
Signed
Condition: Pristine
Price on Application
Peter Wegner (b. 1963) investigates the interplay between linguistic conventions, systems of classification such as taxonomy and list making, and color perception. “We think we know what a color is, what a word means,” he says. “But the simplest things elude us. They are contingent, defined by circumstances.” His paintings, sculptures, large-scale installations, and photography are each attempts to disrupt viewers’ perceptions of a given color or word, and to draw attention to areas of the perceptual experience that often go unnoticed. For Short Poem About A Cloud (2010), he mounted a white, irregularly gridded object onto the wall, encouraging a meditation on the color white by allowing the wall and the glossy white enamel to interplay before the viewer.
