Peter Cohen

Blueprint: Figure 1

Blueprint: Figure 2

Blueprint: Figure 3

Blueprint: Figure 4

Blueprint: Figure 5

Absence (Presence)

Not really (T)here [Out of office (i)]

Walking the halls (Dreaming of the forest)

Desaturation [Out of office]

End (of the) Street

[Looking towards the past (Imagining the present)]

Landscape #4

Landscape #5

Landscape #6

Still life with pear

City of Borrowed Promises

City of Borrowed Promises II

City of Borrowed Promises III

City of stolen voices

City of hidden figures

City of forgotten destinies

City of lost histories

City of remembered futures

Between the lines

Forming

A narrative of histories I

A narrative of histories II

City of Remembered Wishes

The Dreams of Men I

The Dreams of Men II

City of Forgotten Logic

City of Memories I

City of Disconnected Certainties I

City of Disconnected Certainties II

City of Disconnected Certainties III

Synchronicity (painting the sky blue)

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Fragments ( After reality left)

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Mixed Bunch

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Collaboration history

In 2022 Peter Cohen collaborated with the David Krut Workshop to create a series of monotype prints and a linocut to form part of a body of work that was showcased in an exhibition titled Colour in black and white. This exhibition ran from 10 September to 9 November 2022 at the 142 David Krut Gallery in Parkwood, Johannesburg. In 2023 Peter returned to the workshop, again working with DKW collaborator Sarah Judge, to explore pronto lithography in a series of works about urban landscapes. A showcase of recent work will open at the 151 David Krut Gallery in Parkwood, Johannesburg, on the 3rd of August 2023.

Biography

Peter Cohen is a Johannesburg-based architect and artist with his own architectural practice, with a particular affinity for designing modern dwellings that imagine the fine artworks that would fill these domestic spaces. In 2020, in the midst of the global pandemic, Cohen felt the need to create art outside of the realm of architecture. He began exploring both abstract and figurative imagery in different mediums, in the hours after continuing his architectural business by day. With his early works Cohen was industrious with what tools he could find, painting delicate, precise landscapes on spare pieces of floorboards and rolls of heavy brown paper. Cohen’s typically monochromatic work explores imagery related to the built and natural landscape, classical antiquity and other art historical periods, with a mark that is precise, sometimes eliciting a pixel-like surface.