For the project at the art centre Kel_30 in Haren, I worked on location at the exhibition space for more than 3 weeks at my art installation. The end result is now on display. The show is to be visited from 12.00 – 17.00 on saturday 31 may, sunday 1 June and saturday 7 June at ‘ Kel_30, part of the De Biotoop, Kerklaan 30 in Haren, Groningen.
The idea and challenge for me was to make a sculptural work in a experimental setting, which had to have the right size for the space provided. The starting point for me was to go from a 2 dimensional work into a 3 dimensional installation. Using my materials like cardboard and newspaper, wood and paint in the same collage-like way as I do in my normaly smaller sized works.
Here are some pictures of the making of….. A sneak preview of the end result which you can come and see for yourself.
‘Untitled’ – 29x42cm – Acryl paint on cardboard, glued on multiplex, framed with painted wooden slats. November 2024 – August Robin Peters
This abstract artwork almost made itself, the only thing I did was to organize the order. Just like a piece of mosaic. Putting left-over cut-out cardboard strips. Which came from cutting off strips from another older painting on cardboard. By puzzling the pieces afther each other, I could play with the rhythm of the colors and forms/stains and at the same time take control. The image created is still abstract, but to me, it tends to give a little bit of a botanical feel to it, without actually being a figurative image of such.
It’s 09.34 in the morning on september 14th 2019 and I am looking out of the window of the apartment where I’m staying for a holiday in Venice. In front of me is this colorful patio in the neighbourhood of Dorsoduro.
I always wanted to do something with this picture, I love the big tree in the middle and the warm colors of the old houses with lots of windows and blinds. The purple cloth hanging to dry in the sun as a centre of the composition. The picture had something reassuring and soothing to me, as if it says: It’s ‘going to be a good day and everything is going to be allright. I took the idea to produce a puzzle out of this photo just for fun, to keep me occupied in pandemic times in 2020. After I actually had put together the puzzle, I began to think how I could make an artwork out of this image, using the puzzle pieces.
This is how it became a triptych because I started to separate certain parts en made three individual works out of it. It took me quite a while to get it right, because every work had to have the right amount of puzzle parts and the proportions had to be equally divided, so that each work was interesting enough to look at. I started somewhere in 2021 with three wooden panels but left them for years laying in my atelier and always wanted to finish them. I started to work on them again in september 2024 and here is the result. I worked in my usual way of combining painting with collage, using parts of paper, cardboard and other materials.
Morning in Dorsoduro Part.1 – August Robin Peters 2025 – 45x61cm – Mixed mediaMorning in Dorsoduro Part.2 – August Robin Peters 2025 – 61x45cm – Mixed mediaMorning in Dorsoduro Part.3 – August Robin Peters 2025 – 61x45cm – Mixed media
‘Headquarters, Collage made of cardboard, newspaper, gobelin, kitchen towel, mdf wood, canvas & paint. 30cm x 30cm, processed between August 2023 and February 2024 August Robin Peters.
