Part two of a collage-like work with rest materials and bits and pieces of a older tear-up artwork, combined with found and selected parts, attached on wood and framed.
This summer my work ‘Choose your words’ is selected for and part of the exhibition: Refresh Amsterdam #3: Imagine the future, to be seen in the Amsterdam Museum at the Amstel 51, Amsterdam until 30th november 2025
I was asked to think about a wish for the future to create or generate a more harmonious environment in which we all live and have to deal with eachothers behavior. My reaction to this question happened quite instinctively and I came up with this protest about using language more carefully.
If you want to know more about this exhibition and vote for the ‘publics award prize’ you can visit this website. https://www.amsterdammuseum.nl/topic/toekomstwensen/bijdrage/221394-geen-achteloos-gebruik-van-f-ck Here you can read more about my motivation and see work from other participants to this exhibition and eventually vote for your favorite! Thank You for your vote.
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.
The day: 15 July 2023
The challenge: create a painting on a wooden panel sized 1.22×1.22m in one day in the open air with provided paint. Wooden panel is screwed onto a frame and is adjusted to personal height.
The setting: the painting is one element of a bigger plan; approximately 500 panels/paintings placed next to each other in an eclips formed shape. An outdoor exhibition during the summer, entry free.
The location: Park Lingzegen, Elst, the Netherlands (1 may till 1 oktober 2023)
The project: The colorfield performance
From a photo to a artwork. A landscape I walked through last summer when I was in Denmark. It’s the park around the ‘Augustenburg’ estate. I was struck by the effect of the large trees and shadows surrounding the path that surrounds the castle. I didn’t want to reproduce the photo one on one, but I kept an certain impression in my head during the creation of this work. Combined from found pieces of wood and added panels and rest materials. It has become a combination of abstract, a bit impressionistic and best figurative for me. Sometimes you can’t avoid a tree.
This installation is made of 25 compositions on cardboard boxes, made between 2020 and 2022. The method of making and the ingredients are the same. The outcome is very different and variable. It made me think of the human D.N.A. How we all are made of the same but differ so much from each other.
In this work I realized a new composition existing out of individual pieces which are combined together to create a new image. The frame is made of old left-over pieces of wood and combined with new parts.
The frame that is holding the 3 boxes and 1 little one is constructed to accommodate the composition boxes, which are commutable, because you can simply pull them out and change them for another and make your own combination. The shape and design are inspired on fruit and vegetables baskets as you see them presented in markets or grocery stores.
I wanted to emphasize the heritage of the painted boxes which are made of packaging materials coming from the world of consuming.
august robin peters 