PETER ZIMMERMANN (Germany, 1956)."Trailer D", 2002.Epoxy on canvas.Signed, dated and titled on the back.Provenance: Important Spanish Collection.Size: 270 x 170 cm.This painting by Zimmermann is paradigmatic of the artist's work with epoxy resin. It is a project that, in a way, began with the 1980 series "Book Cover Paintings", in which covers, atlas titles, art books, atlas titles, art books, travel guides and dictionaries were depicted on canvas using epoxy. The colourful motifs of his epoxy resin images arise from digital templates, such as photos, film stills or diagrams, which he distorts using graphic algorithms and transfers to canvas in numerous transparent layers of epoxy resin. This experimental project began as a result of a "fortuitous mistake": due to a technical glitch, several digital image files were mixed up and messed up, resulting in a work that he decided to leave unaltered. From there begins a reflection on the original and the copy, tradition and innovation.Peter Zimmermann studied at the Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste in Stuttgart from 1978 to 1983. Since then he has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums in Germany and abroad. He works as a painter, sculptor and object artist. He was a lecturer at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne from 2002 to 2007. Zimmermann's oeuvre is very varied, but always interested in this conceptual approach through oil painting. In the 1980s, Zimmermann's production was part of the flourishing art scene in Cologne, a context to which he belonged but from which he distanced himself through a reflexive practice far removed from the neo-expressionist positions of some of his colleagues. Characteristic of this period are his reproductions of book covers, catalogues and artists' monographs, dictionaries or travel guides, made in synthetic resins and pigments. Also belonging to this period are the series of posters and cardboard boxes in which, using an administrative aesthetic, the artist questions the authorship and reproducibility of the image in the contemporary world. These concerns are materialised in Zimmermann's works through the appropriation of materials that are circulating on the net and are transformed with the use of different computer programmes. As a result of these operations, abstract paintings and interventions emerge that problematise the illusory nature and superficiality of the image, constructing an imaginary that captures the viewer's gaze through bright shapes and colours. Recent exhibitions include those at the Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst (Otterndorf, Germany, 2016); the Charim Galerie (Vienna, 2016); and the Museum für Neue Kunst (Freiburg, Germany, 2016). He has participated in group shows at venues such as the Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain d'Auvergne (Clermont-Ferrand, France, 2012); the Kunsthalle Bielefeld (Bielefeld, Germany, 2013); the Museum Weserburg (Bremen, Germany, 2011); and the Kunstmuseum Bonn (Bonn, Germany, 2009). Zimmermann's work is in numerous private and public collections, including the Bundeskunstsammlung Bonn, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.