Peter Combe the Focus of Interview with WIDEWALLS

The Post-Internet era is made up of many different parts, and although they exist independently, they are also connected to each other. As the world is getting older, we are surrounded by much more than what we used to perceive years or decades earlier. We are constantly informed by new things, meaning that we can use them directly, but we are also able to relate them to our previous knowledge and to make new relations between the old and the new, the new and the new-er. This implicit principle could be a guideline to the art of Peter Combe, the new guest of our interview section.

Peter Combe is a visual artist based in San Francisco, whose approach to art provides a clear demonstration of these relations. Although he uses the term “impression” to describe the essential properties of his artworks, he says that he wouldn’t “call himself an Impressionist“, as much as he doubts that “Warhol would call himself a Fauvist“. The reference to Warhol may have been a bit offhand, but it is definitely on point, given that Combe’s art is an offspring of the Postmodern era. So what happens when an artist is part of a generation heavily influenced by Postmodernism, but working as a visual artist in an age shaped by the Internet? Combe’s relationship with Postmodernism does not rely on some retrospective fascination – it is inherited from his own experience, having spent his formative years surrounded by the echo of the era.

--Natalija (Natalie) Paunić

The full article is continued on the WIDEWALLS website.