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Choose your words

Art exhibition, Beeldende Kunst, Contemporary Art, Object art, photograpy

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.

Installation view in Amsterdam museum
“Choose your words” – paint on cardboard glued on wood – 47x63cm – 2025 – August Robin Peters
Studio – August Robin Peters – 2025

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.

Landscape of tolerance

Art exhibition, Beeldende Kunst, Contemporary Art, Dutch Contemporain Artist, installation art, Landscape, Paper Art, Video
Installation for the project ‘Go your own way’ at Kunstruimte Kel-30, Biotoop – Haren ‘Landscape of tolerance’ – August Robin Peters – 2025
Sfeerimpressie van de opstelling ‘ Landscape of tolerance – August Robin Peters – tijdens de expositie ‘Go your own way’ – May/June 2025

Landscape of tolerance originated from the desire to create a spatial representation. In the research, shapes were created that remain abstract but want to be figurative. When is an object accepted as a representation? Shapes are enlarged, stacked and hung loosely in space. The painting on cardboard were created by chance out of left-overs. Organized in a patch work manner and directed into a abstract form. Newspapers are painted; some fragments dissapear, other receive attention. The paper is stacked with news which become part of the layering and can not be seen as neutral anymore. Newspapers are sewn together, the thread makes the construction visable. The stacked boxes balance but take up space and hold their ground. Have we entered the setting of a play, with players about to enter the stage?

Project at Kel_30 ‘Go your own way’

Art exhibition, Beeldende Kunst, Contemporary Art, installation art, Object art, Paper Art, Sculpture

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.

Expo zet ‘m in de glazenkast (hoedje van papier)

Art, Art on paper, Beeldende Kunst, Contemporary Art, Exhibition, Mixed media, Painting, Paper Art

Overzicht tentoonstelling Kunstruimte PK50 Ede
Knollen voor citroenen- Collage, Mixed media – 2024 – 40,5×25-5×3,0cm- August Robin Peters

Link to the art auction on the website of PK50 : https://50pk.nl/veiling/

Link to website Galerie2020 : https://www.galerie2020.nl/

Artist Talk pt.1 & pt.2

Art, August Peters, Beeldende Kunst, Contemporary Art, Mixed media, Painting, Paper Art

August Robin Peters – 2024 – Artist Talk pt.1 – 70x80x2cm
August Robin Peters – 2024 – Artist Talk pt.2 – 70x80x2cm

Both collages works are made of left over cardboard. Pieces of cardboard lying around on the atelier floor when I’m working, I use these to stroke away paint with my brush to clean them. So most of the stains are coincidence, and some are not. Making a composition with these elements makes me take some control of the image. In these two works I combined them with not so coincidental stains and even copied pieces of dessins from fabrics and added them in the image, which give them the needed contrast and depth.

I called them ‘Artist Talk’ because of the different parts that make one image; different points of view but in dialogue with each other.

It’s only mountains (and the sea)

Art, Beeldende Kunst, Contemporary Art, Landscape, Painting

Preparing a day at the park…

These are studies for making a big size work that I wanted to realize for my participation at the colorfield performance in the summer of ’23. My goal was to make a colorful minimal work with abstract organic shapes and round forms. This idea of these round dots came from my sketches in which I just started to draw stains with colour until it became a form which satisfied me as such. There is still a lot more of experimenting to do with that. For the painting which I had to realize in one day at the project, it had to be recognizable as a landscape but somewhat in between abstract and figurative. How far can you go with abstraction en what do you accept as a recognizable form?

August Robin Peters 2023
August Robin Peters 2023
August Robin Peters 2023
August Robin Peters 2023
Study – It’s only mountains (and the sea) – August Robin Peters – 2023 – acryl on cardboard – 120x120cm

Compositions on cardboard boxes series pt.5

Art, Art on paper, Beeldende Kunst, Compositions, Contemporary Art, Dutch Contemporain Artist, Mixed media, Object art, Small paintings
Composition Box No.31. acryl on cardboard.
August Robin Peters 2021 (sold/verkocht)
Composition Box no.33. Acryl en canvas on cardboard.
August Robin Peters 2022.
Composition Box No 32. Acryl and oil on cardboard.
August Robin Peters 2021
Composition Box No 34. Acryl and canvas on cardboard.
August Robin Peters 2022. (sold/verkocht)

Good Intensions

Art, Beeldende Kunst, Contemporary Art, Mixed media, Painting
‘Good Intentions’ 30x40cm. Wood, cardboard, polyurethaan, paint. August Robin Peters 11/2021

A deconstruction op a ‘verspakket’ packaging. Through working with packaging boxes for my small compositions, this one came out parallel during the proces of making. A very old and not finished painting on a wooden panel became the background for this non narrative work. it is the first time that I used the packaging on a non dimensional scale, in spite of good intentions the black ‘ribbon’ made it 3-dimension again, because I felt it worked too strong not to be part of it.