Peter Dreher

Meyer Riegger is pleased to present Peter Dreher's solo exhibition 31 952 at Meyer Riegger, Berlin. The show brings together diverse bodies of works created by the artist over a period of half a century.

"The empty glass somehow symbolises the beginning of something and the end of something. Peter Dreher’s Tag um Tag guter Tag series is not an actual glass (see Magritte) but a pretty good, almost photorealist, representation of a glass. Outside forces push themselves into the picture and are reflected back to the viewer. The curvature of the glass doesn’t offer the opportunity to see the artist in the process of painting. He’s there but not there."

—Jonathan Monk, Towards an Empty Glass

"Peter Dreher was fascinated by Andy Warhol's desire to be a machine. Even though his American colleague was surrounded by something like a royal court, or a colony of bees around their queen, he himself remained strangely untouched and profoundly detached from it all.

Peter Dreher had a retreat where he could devote himself to his painting undisturbed. He seemed to call out to his inner self: You shall not question me.

He, the happy Sisyphus, ritualised his daily routine and reduced his artistic output by painting only a few carefully chosen objects, or repeating his selected subject a thousandfold, in order to realise the unlimited possibilities of painting through radical limitation."

—Irene von Neuendorff, Der Mut des Weglassens