Peter Klashorst
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| Born | Peter van de Klashorst 11 February 1957 |
| Alma mater | Gerrit Rietveld Academie |
Peter Klashorst (also Peter van de Klashorst) (born 11 February 1957) is a Dutch painter, sculptor, and photographer.
Biography
Klashorst was born in Santpoort and graduated cum laude from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in the early nineteen eighties. During this period a new art movement arose in Europe, namely "The New Wild Ones". Klashorst became one of its leading personalities. In 1983 he received a prestigious Dutch Royal award (Koninklijke Subsidie voor de Vrije Schilderkunst) from Queen Beatrix.
In 1987 Klashorst was one of the initiators of "After Nature", an international art collective that aimed at reinventing painting and bringing art back to society and taking it out of the official highbrow art world. Famous and notorious for their joint performances on streets and in nightclubs,[citation needed] they toured the world and were a notorious phenomenon of their time.[citation needed] The collective “After Nature”, including co-founders Klashorst and the artists Roberto Cabot, George Dokoupil and Ernst Voss, opposed the prevailing non-figurative style and was interested in just painting what they saw.
During this period Klashorst could often be found in New York’s East Village art scene where he showed his work in galleries at Manhattan’s Lower East Side, for instance the Daniel Newburg Gallery and the International With Monument Gallery. He hang out with Robert Mapplethorpe and Jeff Koons still in the beginning of his career.
Tired and disillusioned with the whole commercial art world and all the time consuming networking in expensive restaurants, he started travelling to distant places without an art market or top galleries. Just as his heroes the poet Arthur Rimbaud and the painter Paul Gauguin he went to Africa full of romantic ideas, but of course the harsh reality of the African city life is no picnic. During this time he exhibited in the National Museum of Kenya and gave lectures and workshops to local artists and street kids, but was also arrested and imprisoned a few times for his uncompromising sculptures and paintings.
Klashorst has been living all over the place but never left his beloved place at the Spuistraat in Amsterdam. He has been working at lot from Cities as Bangkok, Mombassa and Phnom Penh. In 2011 he did one of his last self organised shows at the Tuol Sleng, S21 the former Khmer Rouge prison (Cambodia). In honour of the victims of the Khmer Rouge’s terror and genocide that took place from 1975 to 1979 in Cambodia, Peter Klashorst created an impressive and sometimes very confronting set of around 50 paintings.
The show got world wide attention (The New York Times and Herald Tribune).[1]
"People in the West often believe that these events of brutal oppression only happened in the past. But even right now, in the so-called civilized western world, innocent people from poor countries are put behind bars. Authorities in the rich countries arrest them, take their pictures, interrogate them and prepare dossiers, just to deport them as illegal immigrants and send them back after months in jail. That is also an issue that fuelled this work, and makes this exhibition not only a tribute to those who died at S-21, but also to those innocent people who are suffering in prisons all over the world right now and are unable to be free in this world that God created for all of us", says Klashorst.[citation needed]
At the moment Peter is all over travelling to all parts over the world getting his energy from the people around.
Prizes
- 1982 Johan en Titia Buning-Brongers Prize
- 1983 Royal Prize for Free Painting (Netherlands)
Bibliography
- Template:Nl Steef Davidson, red., Peter Klashorst, tekeningen: Poëzie explosie : 23-5, 30-5, 6-6 1979, Amsterdam, 1979
- Template:Nl Peter Klashorst; samenst. Timo van der Eng, Theo van der Hoeven; red.: Marleen Buddemeijer: Schilderen met acryl, Utrecht, 1997, ISBN 90-6533-435-1
- Template:Nl Mieke Rijnders, Geurt Imanse: Over schilderkunst; Pieter Holstein, René Daniels, Peter Klashorst, 1983.
- Template:Nl Paul Groot et al.: After nature, Amsterdam, 1989, catalogus uitgegeven ter gelegenheid van de tentoonstellingen van Bart Domburg, Jurriaan van Hall en Peter Klashorst in de galerieën Jurka, Hans Gieles en Torch te Amsterdam.
- Template:Nl Robert Vuijsje: King Klashorst, Amsterdam, 2005, ISBN 90-5000-428-8
- Template:Nl Peter Klashorst: Castles in the Air, Bangkok, 2010, ISBN 978-94-90956-01-1
- Template:Nl Peter Klashorst: Kunstkannibaal, 2012, ISBN 978-90-44617917
Work by Peter Klashorst
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References
- ^ "The Walking Dead". International Herald Tribune. 23 April 2011 – via The New York Times.
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