Index Code:

ART-OAT-DRE

Orgin:

Germany

Field Notes:

The same glass is painted again and again under changing light until thousands of images exist

Defining Moment:

The Day by Day Good Day series where each canvas is a unit in an ongoing temporal architecture

Peter Dreher

(

1932–2020

)

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Dreher built a world where seeing becomes ritual — hundreds of repeated paintings of a single glass revealing time as quiet structure.

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Dreher's work clarifies discipline as vision.

Structural Focus

Time as Material

Duration, aging, fading, accumulation, or delay is integral to the work. Form unfolds rather than presents itself immediately.

In Peter Dreher’s work, this approach appears where repetition records duration.

Position

Time as Material

Duration, aging, fading, accumulation, or delay is integral to the work. Form unfolds rather than presents itself immediately.

In Peter Dreher’s work, this approach appears where repetition records duration.

Constructed Surfaces

Surfaces are built through layering, joining, and controlled fabrication.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Material

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Proportion

Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.

Structure

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Art

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Photographic

Photography operates as a structural and documentary system.

Conceptual

Ideas and systems take precedence over material form.

Conceptual Art

Language, instruction, and proposition function as the work itself.

Peter Dreher

Structural Focus

Time as Material

Position

Time as Material

Observartory

In Dialogue

Peter Dreher

Structural Focus

Time as Material

Position

Time as Material

Observartory

By Structural Focus

In Dialogue