The monochromatic, ornamental images of "Ohne Titel I" by Austrian artist Peter Kogler are created in combining silk screen printing on canvas with computer drawings.

Since 1984 Peter Kogler uses computer drawings as a basis for his large sized images, using plotted or printed output and transferring it on canvas by silk screen printing. As he says himself, he has no close relation to colours, and that is why many of his images are held in black-and-white. For the rest, he prefers red and green. Ever since he started working with the computer, his central topic is the face, which he redesigns in the most manifold variations. For him the computer becomes a filtering device for material found along the way as well as a sketching medium. While in his earlier works faces enlarged to form a head shape dominate monochromatic areas, the more recent images depict the representation of a face reduced to its essential basic structures on an ornamentally textured canvas.

So, human faces develop into multilayered geometrical patterns, circles, spirals and meanders, images that remind of earlier Pattern Art.

Peter Kogler, born 1959 in Innsbruck, is an autodidact except for one semester he studied at Vienna's Fine Arts College. As early as 1980 he entered the international arts stage after being discovered by the renowned Austrian galerist Ursula Krinzinger. Ever since, the Vienna based artist has become an internationally renowned representative of Austrian Art. Peter Kogler's artistic training is strongly influenced by the American minimalists, one of the early examples he strived to follow being Andy Warhol. The first works he presented in the early Eighties were cardboard objects. Markus Brüderlin wrote about the (then) card-minimalist: “Kogler combines the slightness of drawing (under consideration of the structural properties of modem communication technology) with the associated sluggishness of architectural bodies”.
One-man exhibitions: 1984: Galerie Hummel, Basel; Galerie Krinzinger, Innsbruck (catalog). 1985: Galerie Anna Friebe, Köln (catalog); Galerie XPO, Hamburg (catalog); Galerie Gracie Mansion, New York. 1986: Galerie Krinzinger, Innsbruck (together with Walde). 1987: Anna Friebe, Köln, “The colour of money”; Artelier, Graz. 1988: Galerie Krinzinger, Wien (catalog)
Participation in exhibitions(selection): 1983: Galerie Krinzinger Innsbruck and Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna “Junge Künstler aus Österreich” (catalog); Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne “Supermix”. 1984: Kutscherhaus Berlin “Kometen Folge Lawinen Orte”; Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna “Zeichen Fluten Signale”. 1985: Orangerie Strasbourg “Un Regard Sur Vienne”. 1986: De Vleeshal Middelburg with R Scheffknecht, W Stengl; Galerie Krinzinger Vienna “Aug um Aug”; Biennale Venezia; The Living Art Museum Reykjavik; Frankfurter Kunstverein “Prospect”; Aorta Amsterdam “Wien Signaal”; Rotonda di via Besana Milano “Nuove geometrie”. 1987: Kunstverein Aachen “8 Künstler aus Österreich”; Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Gent “Europalia 87”; Galerie Krinzinger Vienna “Herztöter Mensch”.1988: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf “Ein anderes Klima”.