Van 25 januari t/m 8 maart 2026 wordt de Wintersalon georganiseerd door Pictura Groningen aan de St.Walburgstraat 1. De expositie met werk van ongeveer 30 kunstenaars is te bezoeken op woensdag t/m zondag van 13.00 tot 17.00. Deze onderstaande twee werken van mij zijn geselecteerd en daar te zien. De expositie is met één week verlengd tot en met 15 maart.
August Robin Peters – 2025 – Mixed media – 34 x 29 x 2,5 cm.
Collage made of bits and pieces of older work combined with new parts, some used materials are: Vinyl from my earlier atelier floor, tear-out parts of a painting on paper, cut-out piece of a painted canvas, pink wooden part from a children’s toy, found on the street.
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.
This abstract artwork almost made itself, the only thing I did was to organize the order. Just like a piece of mosaic. Putting left-over cut-out cardboard strips. Which came from cutting off strips from another older painting on cardboard. By puzzling the pieces afther each other, I could play with the rhythm of the colors and forms/stains and at the same time take control. The image created is still abstract, but to me, it tends to give a little bit of a botanical feel to it, without actually being a figurative image of such.
It’s 09.34 in the morning on september 14th 2019 and I am looking out of the window of the apartment where I’m staying for a holiday in Venice. In front of me is this colorful patio in the neighbourhood of Dorsoduro.
I always wanted to do something with this picture, I love the big tree in the middle and the warm colors of the old houses with lots of windows and blinds. The purple cloth hanging to dry in the sun as a centre of the composition. The picture had something reassuring and soothing to me, as if it says: It’s ‘going to be a good day and everything is going to be allright. I took the idea to produce a puzzle out of this photo just for fun, to keep me occupied in pandemic times in 2020. After I actually had put together the puzzle, I began to think how I could make an artwork out of this image, using the puzzle pieces.
This is how it became a triptych because I started to separate certain parts en made three individual works out of it. It took me quite a while to get it right, because every work had to have the right amount of puzzle parts and the proportions had to be equally divided, so that each work was interesting enough to look at. I started somewhere in 2021 with three wooden panels but left them for years laying in my atelier and always wanted to finish them. I started to work on them again in september 2024 and here is the result. I worked in my usual way of combining painting with collage, using parts of paper, cardboard and other materials.
Link to the art auction on the website of PK50 : https://50pk.nl/veiling/
Link to website Galerie2020 : https://www.galerie2020.nl/
Impressie van de etalage tijdens de maand november bij de winkel van ‘Studio Boter’ aan de Oude Boteringestraat 5 in Groningen.
‘ Crazy Flower ’ – Collage, made from cardboard, aquarelpaper, photo, packaging material and paint. 21×27 cm. August Robin Peters – 2024
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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.
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