EDGAR DIEHL

EDGAR DIEHL creates precisely designed geometrical paintings on aluminum supports. The aluminum is often bent or contorted with emphasis on the pattern and each work utilizes a limited palette, carefully chosen for its reactivity. The outcome is a perceptual puzzle. Often, when the viewer engages this puzzle, it can force a sudden awareness of light, color, space, and the subjective nature of vision. Depending on one’s perspective, Edgar’s paintings are reliefs, wall sculptures, objects, or paintings. As such, they are versatile and conversational, not content simply fitting in with a particular group or movement in the history of painting.

EDGAR DIEHL studied architecture at the TU in Berlin and painting, wall painting, and art theory at the Stadel Academy of Visual Arts, Frankfurt, Germany. He has exhibited extensively throughout Europe, the US and Australia, with notable shows at Üblacker-Häusl Museum, Munich, Germany; Kunstraum Villa Fried, Bonn, Germany; Verein Für Aktuelle Kunst/Ruhrgebiet E.V., Oberhausen, Germany; Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Soest, Germany; Claudia Weil Gallery, Augsburg, Germany; Kunsthalle Messmer, Riegel, Germany; Museum Modern Art Hünfeld, Hünfeld, Germany; Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany; the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ; Conny Dietzschold Gallery in Sydney, Australia; and more. Edgar Diehl recently received the Otto Schaffner Prize and was twice nominated for the Andre Évard Art Award at the Kunsthalle Messmer, Riegel, Germany. His work is included in numerous corporate collections: Deutsche Borse & Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt, Germany; Institute fur Zukunftsforschung, Worpswede, Germany; Nestle-Gruppe Deutschland, Germany; Temple University, Philadelphia, PA; Toyota Research Institute, Cambridge, MA; and more. Edgar Diehl has been represented by Pentimenti Gallery since 2016.