{"title":"Peter Piller","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"spekulationen-i-book-peter-piller-9783907179550","title":"Spekulationen (I)","description":"The subject of this and the following books in the Spekulationen series is Peter Piller’s approach to Stone Age art and its presence in his daily life.  This volume presents four hundred and nine photographs found in publications on prehistoric art for contemplation, understanding, conjecture, incomprehension and misunderstanding.   Peter Piller has been working with found images, photography and drawing since the 1990s.  Ever since working at a newspaper press clipping service as an art student in Hamburg, Piller has concerned himself with the collection of visual material and its subsequent re-contextualization into thematic series, in order to give it new meaning and dimensions.  To this day, the Peter Piller Archive has grown to thousands of images — its sources including a commercial aerial photography archive, images from the internet as well as historical postcards.  Informed by his perceptive observations and subtle sense of humor, this archive is constantly and meticulously rearranged to represent new associative formations that offer insightful perspectives on the activities and rituals of daily life.  The wide spectrum of subject matter ranges from the depiction of (cultural) landscapes, people touching cars or looking into holes, to the juxtaposition of traditional role models, protest signs, trained dogs and much more.   Piller has exhibited widely such as recently with Richard Prince at the Weserburg Museum, Bremen in 2021.  Further solo exhibitions include the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München; Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; Kunstverein Braunschweig; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Kunstforum Baloise, Basel; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, among others.  He has participated in numerous group shows, most recently at the Weserburg Museum, Bremen and Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, but also at Centre de la Photographie Genève; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Fondazione Prada, Milan; Lenbachhaus, Munich; MoMa PS1, New York City; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, to name just a few.  Peter Piller’s work can be found in public collections such as Kunstmuseum Bonn, Museum Ludwig, Cologne; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Fotomuseum Winterthur; Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg; Sammlung Rheingold, Mönchengladbach; Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, among others.  Piller is a professor of fine art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.  Prior to this, he was the professor of photography at the HGB Leipzig, from 2006 to 2018.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49752659558673,"sku":"NGR9783907179550","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3907179552.jpg?v=1751430545"},{"product_id":"spekulationen-ii-book-peter-piller-9783907179598","title":"Peter Piller - Spekulationen (II)","description":"During his studies in Hamburg, Piller began working on the Peter Piller Archive, in which thousands of images and photos that he meticulously collected from sources such as magazines, the internet, postcards, and aerial photographs are organized, categorized, and assembled in series. His most important tools have always been his gift for precise observation and a subtle sense of humor, which allow Piller to discover serial, curious, and unusual elements in images that appear extremely banal and trivial, and to relate them to others.  These include the aerial photo archive von erde schöner, based on 20,000 aerial photos and categorized into 23 series, which Piller has been working on since 2002.   His drawings and his own photographs are also always serial.  For example, as part of the series Peripheriewanderungen, which he began in 1994, the artist wandered around places and subsequently made drawings and photographs of his walks.  The drawings in particular are strongly associative and reflect personal impressions and emotions triggered by the walks rather than being actual documentations or maps.  For the series behind time (2017), Piller traveled to various places around the world to observe and photograph rare and special birds.  However, instead of depicting them in their full glory, as ornithologists would, the artist always shows them at the exact moment they leave his field of view and ironically names the photographs after the name of the species of bird he photographed.  Piller is currently engaging with prehistoric cave paintings that were created in southern Europe during the Ice Age, before humans became sedentary.  On this topic as well, he has collected hundreds of photographs and scans from various European libraries, and has taken photographs and made drawings on dozens of trips to southern France and northern Spain.   Piller has exhibited widely such as recently with Richard Prince at the Weserburg Museum, Bremen in 2021.  Further solo exhibitions include the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München; Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; Kunstverein Braunschweig; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Kunstforum Baloise, Basel; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, among others.  He has participated in numerous group shows, most recently at the Weserburg Museum, Bremen and Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, but also at Centre de la Photographie Genève; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Fondazione Prada, Milan; Lenbachhaus, Munich; MoMa PS1, New York City; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, to name just a few.  Peter Piller’s work can be found in public collections such as Kunstmuseum Bonn, Museum Ludwig, Cologne; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Fotomuseum Winterthur; Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg; Sammlung Rheingold, Mönchengladbach; Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, among others.  Piller is a professor of fine art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.  Prior to this, he was the professor of photography at the HGB Leipzig, from 2006 to 2018.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49752663687441,"sku":"NGR9783907179598","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3907179595.jpg?v=1751190586"},{"product_id":"materialien-h-book-peter-piller-9783905999839","title":"Materialien (H)","description":"Accepting the steirischer herbst invitation to its 50th anniversary, in March 2017 I entered the room where all regional, national and international press releases concerning the festival have been filed for the past fifty years.  A total of around 100,000 cut-out articles glued on A4 sheets or whole newspaper pages folded in A4 format.  When I opened the first files from 1967, some of the articles dropped out as the glue had dried out over time.  On the back of one article, that was cut out at a bit of an angle, there was a remarkable picture in the bleed area that had no bearing whatsoever on steirischer herbst, but which had been unintentionally archived too.  I then went about viewing the archive for other strays.  You find them in practically all archives and they open up parallel side stories.  Peter Piller  For more than twenty years Peter Piller (born 1968 in Germany) has been making peripheral excursions, or Peripheriewanderungen (Periphery Walks) in various European cities.  In Hamburg, the Ruhr region, Bonn, Graz, and Barcelona he has explored small sections of areas marking the outer borders of urban settlement in cities and regions of varying size.  In carrying out these walks Piller follows things that catch his eye as well as cues from his memory, ending his excursion once he feels unable to take in anything more.  When something particularly interests him on one of his explorations, he departs from his determined routes, wanders around through the area, or even simply waits for a key moment.  Archives of photographs result, which he subsequently expands upon in his studio with his Erinnerungszeichnungen (Drawings from Memory).  In these mental maps the medium of drawing supplements that of photography and vice versa.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51495650558225,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51495650656529,"sku":"NGR9783905999839","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3905999838.jpg?v=1751350665"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-ie\/collections\/author-books-by-peter-piller.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}