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Peter Weber
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Peter Weber “manages to employ a wide variety of folding procedures to create three-dimensional objects from a whole …that challenge our powers of imagination to an extraordinary degree”.
Eugen Gomringer
Peter Weber has worked since the middle of the 1990s exclusively with “Foldings”, using materials such as paper, cotton, felt, the synthetic material HDPE, and even stainless steel. This has established a completely unique position for him in the field of concrete art. Time and again his geometrically interwoven and cunningly entwined objects fascinate and astonish the viewer as he or she attempts to penetrate their mysteries and divine the way in which they have been created from a single piece of material. With the process of folding, Peter Weber has found a medium in which the visual idea, the process of realising it and the material itself are so closely linked that the works have a very holistic character to them.
Essentially a Folding is nothing more than a transformation of an initially flat surface into a relief-like visual structure that extends out into space. The physicality that is created in this way is most apparent in Peter Weber’s compressed and somewhat weighty looking felt objects, while being of almost no consequence in the works done in paper or cotton. The creation of a folded object always adheres to certain constructive rules that the artist lays down exactly beforehand, and first tries out by means of paper models. The folded visual systems are moreover the product of a processual approach and harbour the possibility of allowing further change. The importance that Peter Weber attaches to this ability for change as a constitutional part of his folded pieces is particularly evident in his serial works, which demonstrate a visual concept in a number of variations.
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1939
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Born in Kollmar/Elbe, lives and works in Munich
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1958
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Studied in the design department at the Fachhochschule Hamburg, awarded his diploma as a graphic artist
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1963
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involvement in concrete art, bass player in numerous jazz ensembles
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1977
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Taught in Hamburg in the field of art education
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1987
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Taught at the design department at the Fachhochschule Hamburg
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1990
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Developed folding techniques and systems using canvas as his medium
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1996
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Foldings in synthetic materials and stainless steel
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2001
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Foldings in felt
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