Peter Klashorst

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Enigma (A painting by the artist)
Peter Klashorst

Peter Klashorst (born February 11, 1957 in Santpoort , municipality of Velsen , North Holland ; actually Peter van de Klashorst ) is a Dutch photographer , sculptor and painter . He specializes in painting and photographing mostly naked young women from the Netherlands, Africa and Thailand. His models are often prostitutes . Some of his photographs are of a pornographic nature.

Life

Klashorst grew up in Haarlem and graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in 1981 . He has two children.

In the 1980s, the painter Klashorst belonged to the Dutch artist group After Nature , which rediscovered Expressionism for itself and which is now part of the Neue Wilde or Neue Heftigen . He worked temporarily with the group around the Cologne exiled Czech Jiří Georg Dokoupil .

In 2000 he was arrested in the Muslim Senegal for his art and spent several weeks in custody. He was accused of creating opportunities for prostitution, inciting licentiousness and making obscene representations.

In 2003 Robert Vuijsje published a biography of Klashorst entitled King Klashorst . In 2003 and 2006, Klashorst made two unsuccessful attempts to reach political offices with new parties in regional elections.

Klashorst lived in Cambodia in 2010 . In 2010, an exhibition was prepared in Phnom Penh that deals with the Khmer Rouge regime .

Awards

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions
  • 2001: Café Galerie Dante en Brood galerie, Amsterdam
  • 2001: Sir Harald Art, Venlo
  • 2002: Arte Vista - The Pop-Art Gallery, Badhoevedorp
  • 2003: Ton Warndorff Gallery, Haarlem
  • 2006: Najaars expositie
  • 2008: Ladies Exhibition . Famous Amsterdam Gallery, Amsterdam.
  • 2009: Quiet Days in Bangkok . Willem Kerseboom Gallery, Amsterdam.
Group exhibitions
  • 1987: A great activity . Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam.
  • 1992: Realities . Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid.
  • 1992: ThrustMaster Remixes . Galerie Heijenbrok, Amsterdam (with Gerald van der Kaap).
  • 1997: Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam. (with Bart Domburg )
  • 2002: Amsterdam Revisited - Adam & Eve: On sex, tolerance . De Appel , Amsterdam.
  • 2007: Strip en art . Singer Laren , Laren.
  • 2009: The last supper & beyond , Willem Kerseboom, Amsterdam

Publications

  • Steef Davidson, Peter Klashorst et al .: Poëzie explosie. 23-5, 30-5, 6-6 1979 . Paradiso-Parapress, Amsterdam 1979.
  • Peter Klashorst et al .: Schilderen met acryl. Teleac / NOT , Utrecht 1997, ISBN 90-6533-435-1 (with video tapes).
  • Peter Klashorst: Kunstkannibaal: memoires van een famous kunstenaar . 3. Edition. Prometheus, Amsterdam 2012, ISBN 978-90-446-1791-7 .

literature

  • Robert Vuijsje : King Klashorst. Vasallucci, Amsterdam 2003, ISBN 90-5000-428-8 .
  • Paul Groot et al .: After nature. Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam 1989 (catalog for the exhibitions by Bart Domburg, Jurriaan van Hall and Peter Klashorst in the galleries Jurka, Hans Gieles and Torch in Amsterdam).
  • Mieke Rijnders, Geurt Imanse: Over schilderkunst. Pieter Holstein, René Daniels, Peter Klashorst. Nederlandse Kunststichting, Amsterdam 1983 (catalog for an exhibition in Amsterdam 1983).
  • Ad de Visser: De tweede helps. Beeldende kunst na 1945. 6th edition. Uitgeverij Boom, Amsterdam 2010, ISBN 9789061686149 , pp. 344-345.

Web links

Commons : Peter Klashorst  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rosa de Sousa: Interview with Peter Klashorst ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Dutch) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rosadesousa.nl
  2. ↑ het Orteheid geven tot prostitutie, het aanzetten tot losbandigheid en het vervaardigen van obscene afbeeldingen
  3. ↑ Klashorst wil never been cooked . In: NRC Handelsblad of May 2, 2000 (Dutch).
  4. ↑ peter-klashorst.com ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.peter-klashorst.com
  5. ↑ Art by Peter Klashorst  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.peter-klashorst.com  
  6. ^ Ladies Exhibition, Famous Amsterdam
  7. ↑ Exhibition list of the Stedelijk Museum ( Memento of the original of July 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stedelijk.nl
personal data
SURNAME Klashorst, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klashorst, Peter van de (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch photographer, sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Santpoort , municipality of Velsen , North Holland