Peter Schuyff Overlays WWI Drawings at Studio Raffaelli in Trento

Dutch-born artist Peter Schuyff (Baarn, 1958) moved to Canada as a child and later to New York in the 1980s and 1990s, where he exhibited at prominent galleries including Pat Hearn and Leo Castelli alongside peers such as Philip Taaffe, Julian Schnabel, and David Salle. For his exhibition at Studio Raffaelli in Trento, Schuyff has taken an unprecedented approach: he discovered an album of drawings by Fritz Ferschl made during his time on a German battleship in World War I and intervened on the pages with his own bright geometric patterns, creating a superimposed grid. This painting-over-painting revitalizes the historical work. The catalog, limited to 250 numbered copies, reproduces the album exactly with Schuyff's interventions. The exhibition runs until June 5, 2016 at Studio Raffaelli, Via Marchetti 17, Trento.