PHILIPP GUFLER

PHILIPP GUFLER

TITLE: Scharlach

DIMENSIONS: 20 x 24 cm

MATERIALS: used silkscreen print on mirror

YEAR: 2020

EDITION 1/5

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WORK DESCRIPTION:

The human body is a central focus, featuring prominently in my silkscreen printed mirrors series. Looking at the work, the spectator is confronted with their own image. When looking into a mirror. what we usually perceive as a planar surface becomes tangible in its spatial depth. Pigments protect the viewer from his own reflection. They color the viewer and the room around him. A performative space opens up between pigment layer and glass surface, as well as the opaque layer lying behind both surfaces.

ARTIST BIO:

Philipp Gufler studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and attended artist residencies De Ateliers, Amsterdam (2015-2017), Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Maine, USA (2019) and Delfina Foundation, London (2021). Since 2013 he is a member of the self-organized archive Forum Queeres Archiv München. Recent solo exhibitions include: It is getting alive, BQ, Berlin (2020); I’m in love with a statue, Françoise Heitsch, Munich (2019); Pleasure Pain, Marwan, Amsterdam (2019); I Wanna Give You Devotion, Platform, Munich (2017); and Setz dein Ich in Anführungsstriche, Kunstverein Göttingen (2016). Recent group exhibitions include: Tomorrow’s Language, Alte Fabrik, Rapperswill, Switzerland (2021); Andere Geschiedenis volgens Dirjke Kuik en Philipp Gufler, Centraal Museum, Utrecht (2020); Love and Ethnology, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2019); Maskulinitäten, Kunstverein Düsseldorf (2019); Paranoid House, Vleeshal, Middelburg (2018); and Bei Cosy, Rongwrong, Amsterdam (2017). Artist books include: Projection on the Crisis (2014/2021), I Wanna Give You Devotion (2017), Quilt #01-#30 (2020), Lana Kaiser(2020), and Indirect Contact (2017).