Peter Zimmermann is a German painter known for digitally manipulating art catalogues, found photos, and book covers until they are no longer representative of their original form. Zimmermann uses these digitized abstractions as projections to be reproduced by pouring and applying pigmented resin and acrylic over canvas. He is especially famous for his series, Book Covers, which conceptualized artwork on classic books and art catalogues in the 1980s, as well as Blob Paintings. Like the Neo-Geo artist Peter Halley, Zimmerman uses the language of Modernist Color Field painters as a foil to produce work that hides meanings and intentions in plain sight. He was born in 1956 in Freiburg, Germany, and went on to study at the Staatliche Akademie der...