Artist Peter Kogler transforms rooms, corridors, and underground tunnels into dizzying structures-installations that transform space and disorient the viewer.
With his optical illusions he challenges the viewer's senses and immerses him in a world on the border of reality and fiction. Creating his works, he takes as a basis patterns and schemes that repeat over and over: mazes of the human brain, ant trails, pipe systems, geometric figures, and so on. In this way, the space expands and contracts at the artist's will.
Peter Kegler was already known in the 1980s. His artistic style was already recognizable then: minimalism, pop art, spatial illusions. Today, with the help of computers and modern technical means, he has rethought and supplemented his old ideas. Looking at his works and, as it were, becoming part of this «kingdom of curved mirrors», something unimaginable happens with the human brain: from delight to discomfort and claustrophobia. Most of the master's recent creations could be seen at the ING Art Center in Brussels and at the ERES-Stiftung in Munich at the beginning of this year.
