Installation view of Peter Piller’s Andrew Kreps’ show
From a NYT Art in Review article, text by Holland Cotter :
As any curator will tell you, editing is an art, and many artists practice it. While working as a picture editor for an advertising agency, the German artist Peter Piller assembled a personal archive of thousands of newspaper images, mostly banal, small-town, photo-op stuff, ”the kind of photographs,” Mr. Piller writes in a gallery release, ”that the photographer who took them can’t even remember. They’re shot one day, printed the next, and in the garbage the morning after.”
Or in an art gallery, months or years later. Mr. Piller’s art, seen here in a strong New York gallery debut, consists of sorting selections from his archival holdings into thematic groups to suggest portentous stories. Bland shots of deserted roads look as sinister as crime scenes. Unexplained shots of bonfires default to records of mass destruction. Daily life, if uncaptioned, is a fraught and perilous state.
Installation view of Peter Piller’s Andrew Kreps’ show
Peter Piller is a Hamburg based photographer/archivist/artist. His personal website is here, and his profile on Andrew Kreps’ Gallery’s site contains installation views of the aforementioned show.
He also takes pictures himself, but they are far less interesting, and fall somewhere in between the topologist and the Eggly wanderer.
© Peter Piller
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