For his exhibition \u201cConstructive Escapades\u201d at Galerie Poll, painter Peter Benkert has selected nine large-scale acrylic paintings from various decades, representing distinct phases of his work. The oldest piece dates to 1983, while the newest was completed in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All the works are marked by a rigorous structure and a clear organizational framework. Brightly coloured, angular, and circular geometric shapes \u2013 taking the form of planks, grids, or probes of varying dimensions \u2013 seem to float effortlessly across the canvas, adhering to a plan governed by its own internal logic. The crisp-edged forms, rendered in complementary colours, evoke cosmic imagery and spark futuristic visions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Galerie Poll first exhibited works by Peter Benkert, twenty-six at the time, in November 1969. The pieces on display were Novopan boards painted with auto lacquer, which the artist dubbed \u201cLuschen.\u201d At art Karlsruhe in February 2024, the gallery presented a widely acclaimed overview of the now eighty-one-year-old painter\u2019s oeuvre as part of the re:discover<\/em> programme. The current solo exhibition offers a more in-depth look into the artist\u2019s body of work, which he describes as an evolution \u201cfrom Luschen dandy to hard-edge virtuoso\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With his illusionistic geometric hard-edge paintings, Peter Benkert aims to elicit not only an appealing aesthetic but also an underlying sense of threat and peril.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Peter Benkert, <\/strong>born in Berlin in 1942, studied in 1969 at the University for Visual Arts Berlin (Hochschule f\u00fcr Bildende K\u00fcnste) as a master student under Prof. Fred Thieler). In 1967, he joined the now-legendary artists\u2019 self-help gallery Gro\u00dfg\u00f6rschen 35 <\/em>(1964\u20131968). His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including Minimalism Germany 1960s<\/em> at the Daimler Art Collection in Haus Huth Berlin in 2010. Beyond his artistic practice, Peter Benkert dedicated more than twenty-five years to working in the archive of the architectural collection at the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin and five years as an art educator. His works are held in private and public collections, including the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection in Stuttgart. Peter Benkert continues to live and work <\/a>in Berlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For his exhibition \u201cConstructive Escapades\u201d at Galerie Poll, painter Peter Benkert has selected nine large-scale acrylic paintings from various decades, representing distinct phases of his work. The oldest piece dates to 1983, while the newest was completed in 2023. All the works are marked by a rigorous structure and a clear organizational framework. Brightly coloured, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":37899,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"ausstellen-text.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38085","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38086,"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38085\/revisions\/38086"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}