Peppi Bottrop

Peppi Bottrop creates drawings and paintings with geometric shapes like squares, circles and triangles. In his works, strokes in charcoal and graphite configure into networks without centre or periphery, which continually lead the eye along their multitudinous pathways.
Bottrop is driven and pushed by an active impulse, which again is absorbed by his vibrating lines not only visibly expressing speed and energy, but also sensing it. Ever so often they appear rich and agile, then again manically tightly packed or calm, stoic and poetic in their dense asceticism never losing their energetic feeling.
By using coal or other exceptional material for his lines and strokes, which in physical or chemical terms are either a buffer or a multiplier of light, his compositions even more initiate a vibrant synergy. As he sometimes paints on plasterboard, directly on the surface or most usually on fabric stapled straight to the wall, his graphic works further oscillate between painting and sculpture indicating a distinctive visual language that shifts between constructivism and deconstructivism, between figuration and abstraction. Born in Ruhrgebiet, once Europe’s largest coal-mining region, Bottrop witnessed the radical transformations of the industrial landscape and the gradual closure of the mines – the memories which he now references in his map-like compositions.

Peppi Bottrop

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