First international artist exhibition of an upcoming series: Peter Hundshammer

May 24, 2011 - PRLog -- First in a series of international art exhibits, Bismarck Studios Contemporary Fine Art Gallery presents the German artist, Peter Hundshammer,  who works and lives in Regensburg, Bavaria. In 2006 he started the series, “La Diva”, works that are very much reminiscent of German expressionistic painters like Max Beckmann and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. His paintings exhibits strong lines, vivid colors and the tendency to show things in the glaring light of underlying truths.

Peter Hundshammer is more interested  in the psychological or spiritual portrait trying to capture the inner psyche than rendering a straight portrait.
He explains, “I try to visualize this secret on my canvas. Being far from just portraying the features I attempt to get hold of the splendour, the distance and the vulnerability of the diva. No cheap snapshot, no official website or screenshot feels her divinity like the eye of the painter”.

Peter Hundshammer is using the concept of German expressionism in a contemporary way by exploring and deconstructing the public media image.  An identity so complex and distant that it eventually becomes trite, empty, and reachable only by the overexposure of the media, is explored in depth by Peter Hundshammer.  The individual image that was dissolved into the collective by a globalized reality is transformed through an analytical approach by the artist into their own underlying personality again. His paintings are not  about Divas turning into mere images, they are about the person behind the glare and the real relationship with the viewer.

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