Gugger Petter

Gugger Petter is a Danish artist who has achieved international recognition for her innovative portraiture and scenes of everyday life. “For the past twenty-five years, I have worked with newspapers as my main medium, creating both two and three-dimensional works with this material. My fascination with newspaper consists not only of it being ‘the diary of our lives,’ it also presents me with a black, white, and limited color palette, which has always been my choice. My work is most often based on an oversized image of an observation of daily life, which can be seen as an abstraction as well as a representational image, where surface, subject matter, color and content all convey tension between opposites.”