The Lost Video

Art, Beeldende Kunst, Contemporary, Mixed media, Photo, Video

Last year three of my works were selected for the Festival de Artes Lanzarote & Fuerteventura 2020. Initiated by The Lacuna Studio’s in Lanzarote. The theme of the festival was Lost. Because of the COVID 19 pandemie it was not possible to exhibit the works for real. Instead of a physical presentation the organisation decided to transfer the exhibition into a digital art festival. Lacuna studio’s asked participating artists to think about activities around the festival. Because my works could not be presented for real, I decided to film my works in an lost enviroment during the first lockdown in The Netherlands. My artworks were placed in various situations around the street where I live, but they seem kind of lost. Lost in the silence of the pandemie, empty streets, quiet trainstations, people passing by without noticing the artworks. Because of the work is made with lost and found materials it seemed appropiate to use this setting. I even made a real presentation of 4 works on a deserted wall in back garden of a house nearby which was uninhabited at the time. For a moment it felt like a real art presentation. The video was posted on the YouTube canal of the ‘Lost’ festival by The lacuna studios.

https://videopress.com/v/jGSyqC8c?preloadContent=metadata

https://youtu.be/xvzeO_JDW8E

Lost & Found Series One

Art, assemblage, Beeldende Kunst, Dutch Contemporain Artist, Mixed media, Object art, photograpy, Stil Life

I started to make these assemblages from februari 2020 until november 2020 using photographs of building waste in a container on the street. Finding a way to use these photo’s I first started with framing of the image. Most of them are blown out of proportion to find a new composition in which the origin in less obvious. Along with changing the cadre the context changes. It’s not just building waste anymore but more an abstract composition which make you see spaces within the picture. To make a layering and even to surprise myself in the assemblage, I added materials, such as found wood, plastic bottle mini sculptures or just pieces of different wooden slats, some new, some old. This all led to found works with lost materials.

Window shopping

Art, Beeldende Kunst, Contemporary, Landscape, Moderne kunst, Object art, Painting

A year ago from now this work was selected for a new art project in Otterlo, called galerie2020. Each month a different work is on display from a different artist. 12 months, 12 artists. For me the honour to do the the kick-off on 31 december 2019 to be the first on display during the month of January 2020. The vitrine galerie project is curated by Marian Mijnhardt and can be followed on http://www.galerie2020.nl

During the month of January 2020 several visitors came by to look at my work.

‘The Gift’ is a landscape mostly made of wood in combination with a piece of lost driftwoord which I found on the Lido in Venice, some years earlier. A picture I took in the national park The Everglades in Florida USA inspired me and was the starting point for this composition. Other materials I used are eco-line, acryl-paint and lacquer, green tule and an old coaster to make this composition. To me it represents the reminiscence of different places that you visit during traveling and about making connections between those very different parts of the world. It is about dreaming a world and how you can make your own interpretation of a composed world and reality you have actually seen. In this case a travel to Venice and Florida ended up in a landscape with a more Asian feel to it. To me that is ‘The Gift’

Later that year the work was sold and has found a new home where it is appreciated very much.

three works.

Art, assemblage, Contemporary, Mixed media, Painting

Left in the corner top: ‘Conversation’ 2017/2020. Mixed media. Acryl on canvas, cardboard, acryl lacquer, wooden slats. 30x40x4cm. August Robin Peters.

Left in the corner bottom: ‘A night in Tunisia’ 2020. Mixed media. Wooden panel, cardboard, acryl lacquer, eco-line, sandpaper, wooden slats. 22x30x6cm. August Robin Peters.

Right: ‘Totem’ 2019. Mixed media. Cardboard, acryl lacquer, torn canvas, wooden frame. 30x40cm. August Robin Peters

Conversation and A night in Tunisia are currently on display on the exposition ‘Gevonden werk – Found work’ in the gallery of Cultura Ede, the Netherlands.

All works are for sale, please message me by mail if you’re interested. augustpeters@icloud.com

Control Alt Delete

Art, Art on paper, Beeldende Kunst, Collage, Contemporary, Moderne kunst

Two new works. I started to pick up left over pieces op paper, which were partley on the floor, combining them with other paper related materials. it became a collage with layering, cutting away parts I didn’t like. Adding paint or cut-out parts of packaging, left-over parts of wooden sticks, a shopping bag from Salisbury, sandpaper, cardboard shoe mold. Sometimes i even made up stuff which look like they belong in the image. To me it’s controlled chaos, in the end its harmony, but still with a rhythm….

‘Control’ 52,5×53,5cm. Mixed media. Paper collage. December 2019. August Robin Peters.

‘Jam’ 54x62cm. Mixed media. Paper collage. Maart 2020. August Robin Peters.

Atlantis

Art, Art on paper, assemblage, Beeldende Kunst, Collage, Contemporary, Dutch Contemporain Artist, Landscape, Mixed media, works on paper

This little piece originally started as a water-colour experiment somewhere in 2015. Last year I started to work with unfinished pieces and tried to re-arrange the composition by tearing, cutting, adding all sorts of paper. To me it was kind of meditative to work on something completely different and very satisfying to work towards a defined and definitive form. I called it Atlantis. if you want you can see a hand rising from the water.

Imaginairy landscape

Art

A work made in in a mixed technigue using photo, newspaper, printed cotton, cardboard and stitching . Most of the time these landscapes, as I like to call them begin to appear under my hands when things coincidentally find each other and the combinations begin to work. Only the beginning of the image starts fast but after that it takes more time and a lot of trying out to actually finish.

The three dimensional assemblage is made during the same time in my studio and takes a simulair path in the imaginative world of landscapes. Although both works were not made side by side, the simulairity of the language is the same.

Imaginairy landscape. Mixed media. 31x23cm. May 2019. August Peters

Assemblage with canvas, frame and shoe molds. Mixed media. May 2019. August Peters

LEFT OVER WORKS

Art, August Peters, Beeldende Kunst, Contemporary, Dutch Contemporain Artist, installation art, Object art, Sculpture

Sculptural landscapes

Art

Installations made with cardboard box sculptures. There are many possibillities to form landscapes or more solitary images.

Nau End Expo 2019

Art, Beeldende Kunst, Dutch Contemporain Artist, installation art, Mixed media, Moderne kunst, Object art, Painting, Sculpture

These works were exhibited at my end expo in Loods6 Amsterdam of the NAU (Nieuwe Akademie Utrecht) in juli last year. It was a selection of works I made in the last couple of months before the expo. NAU is an art course I followed for 5 years together with 10 other artists we graduated, started with somewhat 35 starters in the first year. But with a lot of hard work, persistence, searching, studying and defining your subject and having the joy of wanting to create art it has been as much as a trigger point to let go what i already knew as a starting point for me to develop my work for the future.