Peter Wächtler’s films, drawings and sculptures refer to surreal visual worlds that oscillate between tragedy and absurd comedy. Many of his works refer to the aesthetics of comics or children’s book illustrations, whereby the familiarity or catchiness of the image creations is undermined, for example, by the integration of bizarre text passages. The results are haunting formulations that shake the viewer up like a (nightmare) dream. The lecture at the Kölnischer Kunstverein is conceived as a fundamental introduction to the artist’s work.
Peter Wächtler (*1979 in Hannover, lives and works in Brussels) had, among others, solo exhibitions at the Chisenhale Gallery in London (2016), the Renaissance Society in Chicago (2016) and the Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster (2014).
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