Modern Art - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2012 - 70 Euro Cent

With crawling ants, a kind of "trademark" of the Austrian multimedia artist Peter Kogler, launches the new interesting brand series "Contemporary Art". Born in Innsbruck in 1959 and awarded the Vienna Prize for Fine Arts in 1996, Kogler is undoubtedly one of the most successful contemporary artists with his sensational installations. The eye-catching brand block, an innovative piece of modern philately, now addresses the artist's oeuvre. About the person: From 1974 to 1978 Peter Kogler studied at the School of Applied Arts in Innsbruck, after which he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. From 1986 to 1987 he was a lecturer at the renowned Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, 1993 at the Académie des Beaux Arts le Mans in France. In 1997 Kogler became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and was the master class for computer and video art; since 2008 he has been professor of graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and is also a member of the Senate Peter Kogler first became known for artistic work through the use of repetitive pattern systems printed on paper webs, computer animations and video projections, which he designed as walkable, illusionistic room labyrinths - these usually extend over ceilings, walls and floors and take over the entire visual circle of the beholder on. Some years ago, Kogler expanded his extensive work with simple signs such as pipes, brain structures or ants with computer-manipulated images, videos and slide projections. "Like no other artist of the present, Kogler finds formative image codes for our world, which is increasingly determined by data streams and electronic paths, and combines this visualization with a physical experience of disorientation," it says in a German exhibition catalog. Peter Kogler received his first international attention at the renowned "documenta" in Kassel in 1992, when he had the entire first room of the Fridericianum Museum crawled over black-and-white, oversized and wallpaper-printed ants. Kogler was able to add many more to this international success - always endeavors to grasp organic and at the same time social systems of order motivically and to interpret them in an avant-garde way. Movement currents, whether of liquids, rats or ants, always form the starting point of his gigantic surfaces.