These pictures were shot on location, during filming my artworks for the short video ‘Lost in pandemie’ which you can see in the previous blog. Personally, I like the pictures so much that I wanted to show them in a solo blog. Just for the esthetics of the photo’s. To me they both capture the feeling of totally left and lost in a setting and on the other hand, they seems to immerse naturally in the environment of streets, concrete, building waste and other decors of outside settings. Pictures taken in may 2020.
assemblage
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.
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
Atlantis
Art, Art on paper, assemblage, Beeldende Kunst, Collage, Contemporary, Dutch Contemporain Artist, Landscape, Mixed media, works on paper
August Robin Peters 2019
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.
Sculptures Series One
Art, assemblage, Beeldende Kunst, Contemporary, Dutch Contemporain Artist, Mixed media, Moderne kunst, Object art, Painting, SculptureI started to make these sculptures out of cardboard box material to satisfy my need to make a three dimensional form. I wanted to build a form, shape that could be interesting to look at and at the same time would not represent anything in the sense of a subject. In these pictures the cardboard sculptures are presented as a solo form but in a bigger scale I want to make a composition as if it was an abstract painting. The fascination for these forms origin in the fact that i collect tiny boxes and packing material. Most of the time I unfold them and study their forms as if it were patterns of clothing. By making small adjustments in the shape, by cutting it, building it with other parts, glueing it together again, another form starts to reappear and they begin to speak for itself.
To Reminisce East & West
Art, assemblage, Collage, Contemporary, Geen categorie, Landscape, Mixed media, Painting, portrait
The Girl, multiplex wood with ecocline and gesso. 30×40 cm August Robin Peters 2018
Reminisce landscape, 60×120 cm multiplex wood with ecocline, tule, acryl paint, driftwood and transparent coaster. August Robin Peters 2018
New Work, new work
Art, assemblage, Mixed media, Object art, Sculpture
Composition with boxes
Art, assemblage, Collage, Mixed media, Object art, Painting, Photo, Sculpture, Stil Life
Several works coming from one composition made with different kind of boxes. From a flat work on paper with paint, through a combination with digital approach into a two dimensional work on paper and a three dimensional work in mixed media, where the actual boxes are placed into a bigger box.
digital fotoprint ca.30×45 cm
With the digital version I could enter a more graphic and sharper background than possible with paint. Which made me realize the importance of the composition and the scale of the items shown. If you make some parts smaller or bigger, the rest-space-changes and sometimes makes the composition weaker or stronger.
Acryl on paper ca. 50×60 cm
Acryl on paper and board paper and paper tea box ca.60x80cm
Rests-space take an important role, as you can see in the most abstract version painted on wood. The forms become more important and with less details. Beside the fact that they change form and become something on their own. The originally tea boxes and other packaging material also become an interesting form to look at. On one hand they are flat and have, at the same time the illusion of a dimensional form. The playing between flat and non flat keeps me occupied and fascinated.
Acryl, oil, nail polish and sticker on wood ca. 70×65 cm
Digital photo print ca.30x45cm
Recent works…
Art, assemblage, Collage, Mixed media, Object art, Painting, Photo, Sculpture
August Robin Peters 2017. Imaginary landscape made of Cardboard paper, wood and brush, ca. 50x70x10 cm
August Robin Peters 2017, Assemblage landscape made of textile, wood, photograph, acryl, nylon, paper, ca 50x70cm
August Robin Peters 2017, 3-Dimensional wall object made of cardboard-paper and yellow dishcloth, acryl paint, ca 130×90 cm
August Robin Peters 2017, Red bricks. Painting of acryl and oil ca, 40×50 cm
Façade
Art, assemblage, Mixed media, PaintingThis serie of works could reflect my state of mind about the last couple of months, after loosing a close relative. It reflects my feeling of isolation when mourning is not shared. The façade of this house has windows but they look either closed or difficult to see through. A door is not seen and can not be entered. The lack of an open door gives this atmosphere a very closed feeling. As if it’s not possible to participate, to enter or to leave. A feeling of left behind. Emotions that are isolated. The locked feeling of a mourning process. 
December 2017 August Robin Peters
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