Uwe Wittwer - New Works

Understood broadly as “the use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work”, it is 1970s Appropriation Art with which Uwe Wittwer (Switzerland) shares leitmotif. In this new body of work the artist adopts and adapts anonymous, unfamiliar but somewhat recognizable images.  These include still lifes, interiors, family portraits, genre scenes and Old Master paintings. Wittwer digitally processes these found images by mirroring, inverting, blurring, distorting, under- and over-exposing, omitting, isolating and layering the image’s original elements.

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