Born in Denmark, but having been inspired by living and working in Italy, Mexico, Belgium and the United States, Gugger Petter’s newspaper art has become “a diary” of her life, each piece constructed with newsprint reflecting a moment in time.
Petter has worked with newspaper as her medium for over twenty years. “My fascination with newspaper consists not only of it being ‘the diary of our lives,’ but it also presents me with a black, white, and limited color palette, which has always been my choice.” Using a traditional loom to weave tightly rolled strips of newspaper, Petter’s work is a larger-than-life look at aspects or people of our daily lives. “My work can be seen as an abstraction as well as a representational image, where surface, subject matter, color and content all convey tension between opposites.”
