Peter Tauber (HU) – Triumph and defeat

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.

Triumph and defeat — Tauber’s largest LEAP edition at 70×100cm — gives his comics-meets-abstraction approach room to breathe. The title distills the dramatic arcs of classic comic narratives into a single tension: heroes rising and falling in bursts of kinetic energy, stripped to pure visual essence. Four-color screen print on Pergraphica paper.

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