Consolation Prize
assemblage, Beeldende Kunst, Contemporary Art, Dutch Contemporain Artist, Mixed media, Object art, Paper Art, Stil LifeObject art
Sculptural cardboard boxes as small art-objects
Art, Beeldende Kunst, Contemporary Art, Mixed media, Object art, Small paintings
Compositions on cardboard packaging boxes part 4.
Art, assemblage, Contemporary Art, Dutch Contemporain Artist, Object art, Small paintingsDifferent outcomes with all the same packaging boxes from an AH verspakket, de-folded and re-arranged with an exploratory attitude to see what ingredients you can set out to make a painting without narrative.
First series abstract compositions on cardboard packaging
Art, Beeldende Kunst, Contemporary Art, Object art, Painting, Paper ArtA serie of concept painting on cardboard ‘verspakketten’ from a big grocer in the Netherlands. AH! A way to recycle packaging material and to paint on something different than prepared linnen. The concept is that I deconstruct the verspakket box and cut out the four corners which I use as a pattern at random to make an image. it is the combination of the paint and the cardboard that I find very attractive. Often the paint becomes the glue to stick the different collage-like parts to the new surface. And from scratch everything is open for me to decide on. Colour, composition, added materials, strokes fine and rough. The simple effect of paint and colour and the way the elements are making an image.
Impression exposition ‘Gevonden werk / Lost work’
Art, Art exhib, Beeldende Kunst, Contemporary Art, Dutch Contemporain Artist, Exhibition, Mixed media, Object art, Painting, Sculpture, works on paper
‘Gevonden werk / Found work’ from 21 Nov – 12 Dec 2020 and from 5 june – 26 june 2021
All is well
Art, assemblage, Beeldende Kunst, Contemporary Art, Dutch Contemporain Artist, Mixed media, Moderne kunst, Object art, PaintingI started this work out of a unrecognasible stain, because of the first painting, which kept coming through, despite off layers of gesso and decided to let it be a starting point for this painting. The shape of an imaginary piece of exotic fruit came to mind. It became somewhat the root of this composition in which I felt it wanted to be flowing and organic. In this painting, paint is combined with collage and drawing, when you look close you can see it containes beads, ripped off cardboard and wooden parts. This work was send to an open call competition for the foundation villa Seurat in Paris. The competition had the theme ‘nature reasserts itself’
Stills from the lost video
Art, assemblage, August Peters, Beeldende Kunst, Contemporary, Dutch Contemporain Artist, Mixed media, Moderne kunst, Object art, Photo, Sculpture, Stil Life, VideoThese 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.
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.
LEFT OVER WORKS
Art, August Peters, Beeldende Kunst, Contemporary, Dutch Contemporain Artist, installation art, Object art, Sculpture
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