SHOW FEBRUARY/MARCH 2010

The Logic of Dreams

62-foot long charcoal drawing
by Peter Illig

'The Logic of Dreams' is featuring the 62-foot long charcoal drawing by Peter Illig. This drawing, only shown once before in Denver, is a series of images that derive from popular culture, art history, and dreams, that serve as metaphors for love, sex, psychology, and the making of art in the 21st century.


Video by Viya Rogozina

"The Logic of Dreams is a metaphor for the outward appearance of the rational, observed world that surrounds us.

Is the world operating only on scientific principles, or is it more like a dream, drifting from image to symbolÉ.an illusion of 'cause and effect'? Physicists find matter and the cosmos hard to measure and explain.

The Uncertainty Principle, quantum mechanics and Chaos Theory point to a world where matter cannot be proven to exist, where subject and object cannot be separated, and (pay attention here) consciousness may be determining reality.

We participate in the creation of our world by the act of observing. This has important implications for artists. But we can seek the spiritual, not by avoiding matter, but by immersing ourselves in it. The charcoal IÕm drawing with was once a living thing. Everything is related to everything else. Thoughts are things. And so are dreams.

The drawings are the incomplete narrative of love and existence, metaphors for sensations and thoughts.
The 'sleep of reason' leads to another plane.
ItÕs not machinery, but magic. "
Peter Illig

Peter Illig is represented by Plus+Gallery.