Klare’s work comprises painting, sculpture and photography. In combining and using a crossover of different media, his shows often have the character of installations recreating reality. But, instead of attempting to achieve visual illusion, he approaches reality from the emotional side. His work widens the gap between emotion and intellect where things do not necessarily look real, but feel real. Reality dis-assembles and its meaning falls apart, in order to be re-assembled as an illusion, thereby asking the question of its meaning.
In the main room, you enter Klare’s work through a set of saloon doors that have been painted on canvas. Recent paintings of palm trees on aluminium and polystyrene with a stripe of florescent colour running across the surface are exhibited on the facing wall. These works containing romantic motifs and a minimalist gesture address the earlier mentioned criteria, whilst referring to Los Angeles where the artist held a residency.
In the lower gallery, a set of sculptural paintings referring to mainstream furniture illustrate the boundaries of high art and low culture, of concept and comfort.
Peter Klare lives and works in Berlin.
Recent solo exhibitions include Foreground Makes the Picture Healthy, Galeria Leyendeck, Santa de Cruz, Tenerife, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris and Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles. A catalogue is published by Deitch Projects, New York.