Peter Tauber (HU) – LS Ed. 2 – Gradient

Peter Tauber (HU), 2019
Mimeograph on Munken Pure Rough, 120g/m2
23x33cm, edition of 24
The print ships signed and numbered by the artist

Peter Tauber is a Budapest-born, Vienna-based artist who studied under Daniel Richter at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. His practice sits at the intersection of comics and abstract painting — densely layered compositions that evoke characters like Mickey Mouse, Superman, or Spider-Man through fragments of color, motion lines, and iconic visual cues, without ever fully depicting them. “Comics present me with the ideal raw material for dealing with topics like fear, confusion, loss of identity and hero cults,” he says. “As I dissolve these worlds, something new emerges.” He presented a solo exhibition at our Jan Arnold Gallery in 2021.

This mimeograph was created during the Living Studio 2019 residency at the Jan Arnold Gallery, where artists worked alongside Q21 Artist-in-Residence Erwin Blok. The gradient version layers Tauber’s abstracted comic language in shifting tonal progressions — his deconstruction of pop imagery translated into the raw, tactile quality of mimeograph printing.

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