Petervan Studios – Update Nov 2020 – Intervals of Possibility

Petervan memories from the 70ies – First artistic performances

It’s almost one year (!) since my previous Dec 2019 update. And what a year it was/still is! I basically stayed home for the whole period and had zero travel since Oct 2019.

I am publishing this on the day Belgium is entering its second Covid-19 lockdown. A forced pause-marathon starting on my 63th birthday on 1 Nov till at least mid-Dec 2020. But I am afraid the effort will have to run until deep into 2021 and I am preparing for it as an “interval of possibility”.

An interval of possibility is a temporal framing to see better what is and what can emerge. There is indeed still so much to read, to learn, to experiment, to play with. So many contexts to be architected. So many interesting people to (re)connect with (at least virtually). So much opportunity for spiritual, moral, and aesthetical advancement! Expect me to be quite generative in the coming weeks and months.

The Artschool Project

The Artschool academy year started again in Sep 2020, and I subscribed for a two-year curriculum labeled “specialization”.

“Professionalization” is probably a better title for what it is: a focus on getting the (art)work done, commitment, and ambition. We’ll learn to discover our own visual language starting from our personal frames and themes with the ambition to develop our own artistic maturity and identity. This is about personal reflection, self- and group-critique, evaluation, and research. About creative identity and creative disposition. And about how to create a portfolio, develop contacts with galleries, presenting your own work, setting up your own expo, etc.

From an artistic medium point of view, my main focus will remain painting on canvas, but I will keep experimenting with other (mainly digital) media.

I shared most of my recent work via my Facebook page, or on this blog under the heading “Sine Parole”. I also started selecting more straightforward subjects, such as vases, landscapes, cows, fruit, and everyday objects. In many cases the obvious and what is in front of you is interesting enough. Here is an example of some apples from our mini orchard:

Petervan Artwork © 2020 – Apples – Acryl on Canvas – 50x50cm

The upcoming Cow project

I have something with cows (pun intended). I met many during my summer bike tours. It feels it is going to become yet another a thematic series, like the prison windows, or the birds, or the boxers.

Petervan Artworks @ 2020 – Cow Project – Digital Try-out
Petervan Artworks @ 2020 – Cow Project – Sketch of the Intervals of Possibility

One option is to create a cow-sign-language and typography, or maybe see how I can get them generated through in-the-cloud AI neural networks.

Via Mario Klingeman (@quasimodo) -AI generated shapes

Exhibitions

Last year, I visited some art exhibitions, including:

  • There is no Planet B – S.M.A.K., Ghent, Dec 2019
  • Inge Decuypere – Ronse, Feb 2020
  • Dali-Magritte – Museum Fine Arts, Brussels, Feb 2020
  • Love-Hate – ING Gallery, Brussels, Feb 2020
  • Keith Haring – BOZAR, Brussels, Feb 2020
  • Van Eyck – Museum Schone Kunsten, Ghent, Feb 2020
  • Stephan VanFleteren – FOMU, Antwerp, July 2020
  • Writing Beyong – Axel Vervoordt, Wijnegem, July 2020
  • Dechamps, Panamarenko and Co – Deweer Gallery, Zwevegem, Oct 2020

There were many more, but due to Covid-19, many musea were closed or had restrictions.

Stephan VanFleteren – FOMU, Antwerp, July 2020

My own exhibition

I ran my first solo (100% virtual) exhibition during summer. Some unexpected fans actually bought some of my works. Thank you: this is very encouraging. For those who don’t know: I also do commissioned work. If interested – in buying or commissions – please send me a private message.

Some vernissage impressions here.

Outdoors

We had a great summer in Flanders. Since the start of the first lockdown on 13 March 2020 we had good to excellent weather till mid-September 2020. Plenty of opportunity for being outdoors, with the occasional bike tour or walk.

Freelance

Covid-19 is not kind to freelancers, especially if you target what some people call the “event industry”. With the exception of a small gig in 2020, I basically got no work since October 2019. Contact me in private if you’d like to hire me for “interesting” work.

BANI

Already in 2018, Jamais Cascio coined the term BANI. See my post from Aug 2019 and Jamais’ update from April 2020. As mentioned before, I am working with some partners on a virtual multimedia workshop based on this framework, with a specific focus on possible responses. We have an amazing cast on-board, and it looks that we’ll be able to make some announcements soon.

Design Unbound

I am blown away and intrigued by the insights in Design Unbound: Designing for Emergence in a White Water World. This is about having agency in a world that is constantly shifting under you. It is so refreshing after all those business-, management-, leadership-, and self-help-books. It has become a healthy addiction: I am basically reading and re-reading and deeply internalizing everything that Ann Pendleton has written in the last couple of years.

We are building a team to design and deliver a corporate curriculum on this topic. Stay tuned on the “we” and the “curriculum”.

Pirate TV

Most online events and conferences suck. I have some ideas on how to be more ambitious. See my earlier post on the ambition cube for virtual events.

Still from Pirate TV Trailer – Petervan Studios © 2020

I got the chance to do a commission for a client on this concept and we – the client, the team, myself – learned a lot on what works and what not.

There are now two Pirate TV channels in the pipeline: one more business focused and one more “artsy”.

New toys

For Pirate TV, I wanted to become more fluent in video and sound creation. As there was nothing else to do due to Covid-19, I followed some online courses on Ableton Live, Final Cut Pro, and Logic Pro X.

These are such rich software environments. Also, their user interfaces make me think differently: thinking in layers, connections, patterns, and harmonies.

Studio Oxygen project

An idea that has been hanging around since 2018, actually.

People are exhausted. Tired of online meetings. Tired of being locked up in their houses. Tired of all the negative news. People crave for oxygen. People crave for small safe groups where they can share, critique, ideate, play.

With a small on-line collective, we plan to come together regularly online to have slow-paced conversations on a topic/seed that I plant.  The seed can be the chapter of a book, an object, a poem, a job well done, or a failing forward.

With a no-frills focus on quality content, we hope these sparks of inspiration will give you “oxygen for the mind”.

Traveling Without Moving project

This will be a series of posts documenting my mental and philosophical journey in 2020.

Some spoiler keywords: silence, pause, play, anxiety, unbound, truth, inappropriateness, genre, and yellow.

Traveling Without Moving (TMW) is also somewhat related to Studio Oxygen and Pirate TV

Books

Check out my GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/3085594-peter-auwera

Some highlights:

Also don’t forget Robert Poynton’s “Do Pause”. Together with Josie Gibson we made 8 podcast episodes, one for each chapter in this book. The last episode is here.

Petervan Rides

Since July 2019, I publish every month a Spotify List with new releases combined with some oldies from the 60ies, 70ies, and beyond. Search for “Petervan Ride” and select “playlists”. Subjective selection of course, as driven only by my personal taste (or lack thereof).

Petervan Rides on Spotify

So, whats next?

I will officially retire from corporate life as from 1 Dec 2020. Not that I plan to stay idle, on the contrary. Within limits, I will stay available for interesting freelance work – I call it “paid play” –  and plan to stay very focused on my artwork.

The plan for the coming months is to work/play on (random order):

  • “Interesting” freelance work
  • Artwork
  • Studio Oxygen
  • Traveling Without Moving
  • Pickup Time Capsules again

So, that’s it for this edition. If there is something worth reporting, next update is for Apr 2021.

#STAYSAFE

#STAYCONNECTED

Warmest,

Petervan’s Delicacies – 16 Aug 2020

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If you can’t get enough of these and want more than 5 articles, you can hang on to the firehose, the extended version of Petervan’s Delicacies in REVUE. Also in this edition with loads of videos. Subscribe here: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/petervan

Petervan Expo Vernissage Video Timecapsule

 

As promised, here is the TimeCapsule video for the virtual opening vernissage of my first solo exhibition.

Subtitles are available in NL/UK

With contributions by my cousin Joost Vander Auwera (Senior Curator – Royal Museums of Fine Art of Belgium, Brussels), Chris Vanbeveren (my Art Painting coach – Academy for Visual Arts, Ghent, Belgium), Frank Poncelet (synthesizer soundscape, co-student Digital Visual Arts, Ghent, Belgium), and John Oliver from Interior Truth. With lots of gratitude.

Background music credits: by Meydän – Tracks: Pure Water, Under Water, Please Wake Up https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Me…

All other artwork, video, soundscape, poems, video editing by Petervan. Produced with standard tools like iMovie and YouTube Studio. 

I am inviting video artists to do something more interesting with the raw material of this TimeCapsule. Contact me privately if interested.

Joost and Chris were so kind to write and record introductory words for the opening keynotes. Below some extracts and links to the full versions. The TimeCapsule video includes slightly edited versions of the full versions in NL/UK.

Opening Keynote Joost

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“Petervan has a special sensitivity in his art for the image that captures. And he knows how to maintain this in a multitude of styles and media. This is evident from this solo exhibition. He greatly appreciates what his teachers teach him and that decorates him.”

“He constantly experiments, but his images keep capturing attention, in a wide variety of form languages”

Opening Keynote Chris

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“Peter likes to work with different materials and techniques and since a few months he also expresses himself with digital imaging. In that context, we can definitely speak of “mixed media”. There are even initiatives and ideas to give this a three-dimensional character. We can only encourage it. In his exhibition we see that diversity. There are “grid structures”, paintings with collage-like aspects, idiosyncratic representations of man, interiors, models like I already mentioned, geometric and organic.”

“I think we can safely say that Peter is a thinker in images.”

And Frank Poncelet – in his daily life Operations Architect at the Xplore Group, but here as co-student of the Digital Visual Arts Media Lab of the Academy in Ghent – made a soundscape for the TimeCapsule with his synthesizers. Check out his YouTube Channel Frame Per Second Animation). I selected his video “Pellicule”. I am sure the Corporate Rebels out there will find inspiration in this compilation.

Also included in this TimeCapsule is a recording made by John Oliver from  Interior Truth: what he does is interesting – silent witnessing videos of artists. Check him out.

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Short version here, and the long version here

My testimonial about this experience:

The silence witnessing approach is refreshing. John creates a virtual space for permission. Permission to be silent, to open-up, to reflect, to adjust, to pause, to dream, and to imagine. He skilfully listens and watches in silence, trying to discern the different stories interwoven in the recording, picking one, and editing it in a high-quality video testimony that respects the integrity of the moment.

Personally, I chose to share stories that were informed from recent reflections, rather than stepping over the lines of my own vulnerability. I know it, and I have no regrets of not exposing my worst shadows to a broader audience. I think it is good for any artist/creative to have a witnessing moment like this, to discover and articulate better what is driving the artistic process. Bravo!

The showroom of the exhibition is open until 31 August 2020. You can get in via this link.

I got some very encouraging feedback after the launch on 1 July 2020, for which I am very grateful. So, more artwork is coming. I just subscribed for another two years at the Academy for Visual Arts in Ghent: a series of 2 specialization years on painting with the aim to professionalise my practice. And cherry on the cake, two artworks already sold: “Blue Boat” and “Five Guys on the Beach”. Feels like the start of a new career.

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Enjoy!

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Vernissage – Joost Vander Auwera

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Petervan, in de wereld Peter Vander Auwera, heeft  na een rijke en gevarieerde carrière in de bedrijfswereld zijn blikveld omgegooid na de openbaring van intense schoonheid in een tentoonstelling van Dries Van Noten, één van de sterktehouders van de Belgische modescène.

Ik ben zijn neef, zelfs met ouders die broers en zusters  van elkaar waren, dus van het pure DNA uit bekeken en als kunsthistoricus van beroep, zou ik mij bij uitstek in de artistieke wereld van mijn neef moeten kunnen verplaatsen en mijn best moeten doen om toch objectief te blijven.

Laat ik vooreerst stellen dat ik het moedig vind om het prestige en de renumeratie van het bedrijfsleven definitief de rug toe te keren. En ook wel de rat-race kan ik vermoeden, als ik luister naar Peter’s nieuwe ideale dag in zijn video “Interior Truth”. Wel vaker heb ik (oud-) collega’s ontmoet die na studies die uitzicht boden op een zeker bestaan en het helpen instaan voor een gezin, op latere leeftijd de spijt voelden om niet hun artistieke passie te hebben gevolgd. Maar bij Peter is die wending  anders en radicaler, hoewel de artistieke gevoeligheid al bleek bij zijn aanvankelijke keuze voor architectuurstudies.

Peter(van) heeft een bijzondere gevoeligheid in zijn kunst voor het beeld dat pakt. En dat weet hij vol te houden in een veelheid van stijlen en media. Dat blijkt duidelijk uit deze solo-tentoonstelling. Hij heeft veel waardering voor wat zijn leraars hem bijbrengen en dat siert hem. Hij experimenteert voortdurend, maar zijn beelden slagen er telkens in weer de aandacht vast te houden, in een grote verscheidenheid van vormentaal

Terecht benadrukt hij het belang van schoonheid in ons aardse bestaan, van de kunst als vrijhaven in het leven  en van ongebondenheid als leidraad van een betekenisrijke  innerlijke beleving. Het is Ernst Gombrich die in 1960 in zijn “Art and Illusion. A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation”, de ogen opende voor het fundamentele inzicht dat de kunst niet de realiteit weergeeft als door een venster, maar dat wij omgekeerd de realiteit zien doorheen wat wij als kunst in ons beeldgeheugen hebben opgeslagen. Het essentiële belang van schoonheid als zodanig voor een betekenisvol leven, is al eerder voor het eerst magistraal verwoord in de filosofie van de 18de eeuw en de verlichting, met Immanuel Kant als lichtend voorbeeld, omdat bij hem de esthetische faculteit bij de mens het sluitstuk werd van zijn filosofie – dus van het zoeken naar betekenis – na zijn analyse van het juiste weten en het juiste handelen. Sindsdien is het begrip schoonheid in de kunst wel wat ondergesneeuwd en in de hedendaagse kunst kreeg ook expressieve lelijkheid haar adelbrieven.

De kunst als vrijhaven voor de kunstenaar en haar publiek blijft een kostbaar goed en dient helaas continu verdedigd, zowel in communistisch-marxistisch als kapitalistisch gefundeerde maatschappijen, dus ook na de vruchteloze afkondiging van het einde van de ideologieën en zelfs van de geschiedenis.

Dat management-theorieën op probleemoplossingen mikken en kunst puur creatief is, daar heb vanuit mijn achtergrond als kunsthistoricus wel kritische bedenkingen bij: kunstenaars hebben in de kunstgeschiedenis wel degelijk vele opeenvolgende artistieke problemen aangepakt, van de beheersing van de perspectief tot de vraag van Adorno of poëzie nog wel mogelijk is na de nazi-uitroeiïngskampen? Maar het oplossingen zoeken gebeurt in de kunst wel op een specifiek wijze: door  het continu reageren tijdens het evoluerende creatieproces zelf en  niet vanuit een vooraf geformuleerde probleemstelling. Picasso formuleerde het zo: “Chercher ne signifie rien en peinture. Ce qui compte, c’est trouver.” En ook nog:”Tout ce qui peut être imaginé est réel.”.

Om met een zeer toepasselijk inzicht van Einstein te besluiten : “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.”

Joost Vander Auwera

Brussel, 28 Juni 2020

English translation by Google:

 

Petervan, in the world Peter Vander Auwera, after a rich and varied career in the business world, has changed his vision after the revelation of intense beauty in an exhibition of Dries Van Noten, one of the strength holders of the Belgian fashion scene.

I am his cousin, even with parents who were siblings, so from the pure DNA and as an art historian by profession, I should be able to put myself in my cousin’s artistic world and try my best to nevertheless remain objective.

First of all, let me say that I find it courageous to definitively abandon the prestige and the remuneration of business. I can also suspect the rat race when I listen to Peter’s new ideal day in his video “Interior Truth”. I have often met (former) colleagues who, after studies that offered prospects of a certain existence and helping to provide for a family, felt the regret at a later age for not having followed their artistic passion. But with Peter, this turn is different and more radical, although the artistic sensitivity was already evident in his initial choice for architectural studies.

Petervan has a special sensitivity in his art for the image that captures. And he knows how to maintain this in a multitude of styles and media. This is evident from this solo exhibition. He greatly appreciates what his teachers teach him and that decorates him. He constantly experiments, but his images keep capturing attention, in a wide variety of formal language

He rightly emphasizes the importance of beauty in our earthly existence, of art as a free haven in life and of unboundedness as a guideline for a meaningful inner experience. It is Ernst Gombrich who, in 1960, in his “Art and Illusion. A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation ”, opened our eyes to the fundamental insight that art does not represent reality as through a window, but conversely, we see reality through what we have stored in our image memory as art. The essential importance of beauty as such for a meaningful life has already been articulated for the first time in the philosophy of the 18th century and enlightenment, with Immanuel Kant as a shining example, because in him the aesthetic faculty in man became the final piece of his philosophy – thus of the search for meaning – after his analysis of the right knowing and the right action. Since then, the term beauty has been neglected in art, and expressive ugliness has also received its nobility in contemporary art.

Art as a free haven for the artist and its public remains a precious commodity and unfortunately has to be constantly defended, both in communist-Marxist and capitalist-based societies, including after the fruitless proclamation of the end of ideologies and even of history.

The fact that management theories aim at problem-solving and art is purely creative, has critical reservations from my background as an art historian: artists have tackled many successive artistic problems in art history, from controlling perspective to Adorno’s question if poetry is still possible after the Nazi extermination camps? But the search for solutions happens in art in a specific way: by continuously responding during the evolving creation process itself and not from a pre-formulated problem statement. Picasso put it this way: “Chercher ne signifie rien en peinture. Ce qui compte, c’est trouver. ” And also: “Tout ce qui peut être imaginé est réel.”.

To conclude with a very appropriate insight from Einstein: “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. ”

Joost Vander Auwera

Brussels, June 28, 2020

Vernissage – Chris Vanbeveren

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Peter Vanderauwera is één van die uitzonderlijke studenten schilderkunst aan de Academie voor Beeldende Kunst Gent, die professionele bezigheden en artistieke activiteiten, combineert met elkaar.

Werkzaam in de internationale ‘event’ sector duiken installatoire elementen op op de podia waar hij neerstrijkt en waarvan we de grondslag dikwijls kunnen terugvinden in zijn schilderijen. Het dankbare daaraan vind ik dat Peter de functionaliteit van zijn creaties kent en gebruikt.

Bij Peter is er geen strikte scheiding tussen toegepaste kunsten en vrije kunsten. Gelukkig maar. Ze staan in een even waardigheid naast elkaar. Peter is er zich erg van bewust dat de uiterlijke aspecten waarin een lezing gehouden wordt bepalend is voor de manier waarop de toehoorders de inhoud zullen ontvangen. Een lezing met zijn spreker wordt onderdeel van een beeldende installatie.

Peter is begeesterd. Dat blijkt des te meer wanneer je een gesprek aangaat met hem en je hem de tijd geeft om uit te weiden over online lezingen. Ik, als zijn leraar schilderkunst, heb dan ook nog eens het voorrecht om zulke gesprekken met Peter te kunnen voeren ten midden van zijn beeldend werk. Het universum van Peter openbaart zich op die manier.

Zijn productie is omvangrijk en divers. Het gaat van modeltekenen over figuratie tot minimalistisch abstract. Een hele gevarieerde waaier die vertelt over de zoektocht waarin Peter momenteel verkeert. Waarbij wij als begeleiders dan meteen in de verleiding komen voor een dikwijls geformuleerde stelling: het zoeken, het proces is belangrijker dan het doel, het product.

Peter werkt graag met verschillende materialen en technieken en sinds enkele maanden drukt hij zich ook uit met digitale beeldvorming. In die context kunnen we zonder meer spreken van ‘mixed media’. Er zijn zelfs aanzetten en ideeën om dit ook een drie dimensionaal karakter te geven. We kunnen het alleen maar aanmoedigen. In zijn tentoonstelling zien we die diversiteit. Er zijn ‘grid structures’, schilderijen met collageachtige aspecten, eigenzinnige weergaven van de mens, interieurs, modellen zoals ik al vernoemde, geometrisch en organisch.

Ik denk dat we rustig kunnen stellen dat Peter een denker in beelden is.

Chris Vanbeveren.

Gent, 27 Juni 2020

English translation by Google:

 

Peter Vanderauwera is one of those exceptional painting students at the Academy of Fine Art Ghent, who combines professional activities and artistic activities. Working in the international ‘event’ sector, installation elements emerge on the stages where he lands and of which we often find the basis in his paintings. I am grateful that Peter knows and uses the functionality of his creations. With Peter, there is no strict distinction between applied arts and liberal arts. Fortunately. They stand side by side in equal dignity. Peter is very aware that the external aspects in which a lecture is given determine the way in which the audience will receive the content. A lecture with his speaker becomes part of a visual installation.

Peter is passionate. This is all the more evident when you enter into a conversation with him and give him time to elaborate on online lectures. I, as his painting teacher, have the privilege of having such conversations with Peter in the midst of his visual work. The universe of Peter thus reveals itself.

His production is extensive and diverse. It ranges from model drawing to figuration to minimalist abstract. A very varied range that tells about the quest that Peter is currently in. In which we, as supervisors, are immediately tempted by an often formulated statement: the search, the process is more important than the goal, the product.

Peter likes to work with different materials and techniques and since a few months he also expresses himself with digital imaging. In that context, we can definitely speak of “mixed media”. There are even initiatives and ideas to give this a three-dimensional character. We can only encourage it. In his exhibition we see that diversity. There are “grid structures”, paintings with collage-like aspects, idiosyncratic representations of man, interiors, models like I already mentioned, geometric and organic.

I think we can safely say that Peter is a thinker in images.

Chris Vanbeveren.

Gent, 27 June 2020

Petervan’s First Solo Art Exhibition Opens

I am excited to announce and invite you to Petervan Virtual Solo, my first solo exhibition of some recent artwork. 

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A collection of sketches – paintings – soundscapes – videos – 3D sculptures – digital sketches – AI warpings – poems – fairy tales – timecapsules

To visit Petervan Virtual Solo, go to https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/1553528/petervan-virtual-solo

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The exhibition runs from 1 July 2020 till 31 August 2020 and is open 24/7

Here is a link to the online catalog; you can select specific works, and – if interested – click the “Send Request” button. PDF of the catalog available upon request.

You can also experience these and other artworks in Augmented Reality to get a feel on how these works would fit in your living room: https://augmented.kunstmatrix.com/en/node/1489. You first have to download the KUOI App on your smartphone/tablet, download the barcode, and use ID code 1489

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The Opening Vernissage will also be virtual: the format chosen is a video “TimeCapsule” with introductory words by my cousin Joost Vander Auwera (Senior Curator Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost_Vander_Auwera) and Chris Vanbeveren (Peter’s art coach at the Academy of Visual Arts in Ghent). The TimeCapsule will be released on 15 July 2020 and you will find it for viewing and download on my webpage https://petervan.wordpress.com/

That is also where you can stay informed. Please subscribe to my website and you’ll get an email notification when there is news.

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With gratitude:

To my family, my mentors, and coaches of the art academies of Overijse and  Ghent; Joost, Chris, and Frank for the help with the TimeCapsule; my supporters, and everybody who kept/keeps encouraging me to follow my artistic instincts. Special thanks to Peter Hinssen and Cathy Boesmans: our initial plan was to have a real live exhibition in the AppleChapple in Mater, Oudenaarde, Belgium. We were all set to go, but we had to change our plans due to Covid-19. We will be back with some art-videos running in the vintage Mackintoshes.

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That’s it! Enjoy the exhibition! I am looking forward to our next encounter, virtually or in real life.

With warm artistic regards,

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Ik wil je graag uitnodigen op Petervan Virtual Solo, mijn eerste solo tentoonstelling van recente kunstwerken.

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Een collectie schetsen – schilderijen – klankborden – videos – 3D sculpturen – Digitale schetsen – AI verbuigingen – gedichten – sprookjes – tijdscapsules

Je kan Peter’s virtuele tentoonstelling hier bezoeken: https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/1553528/petervan-virtual-solo

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De tentoonstelling loopt van 1 Juli 2020 tot 31 Augustus 2020, en is open 24/7.

Hier is een link naar de on-line catalogus van deze tentoonstelling; je kan werken aanklikken en indien interesse is er een “Send Request” knop om mij te contacteren. De PDF van de catalogus is beschikbaar op eenvoudig verzoek.

Deze en andere werken kan je ook als Augmented Reality ervaren en testen hoe een bepaald werk past in jouw ruimte. Ga near https://augmented.kunstmatrix.com/en/node/1489 en download eerst de KUOI App op je smartphone/tablet, download de barcode, en gebruik ID code 1489

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Ook de Opening Vernissage zal virtueel zijn: een video TijdsCapsule met inleiding door mijn neef Joost Vander Auwera (Senior Curator Koninklijk Musea van Schone Kunsten van België https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost_Vander_Auwera) en Chris Vanbeveren (Peter’s kunst coach schilderen aan de Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Gent). De TijdsCapsule zal gelanceerd worden op 15 Juli 2020 en je zal deze kunnen bekijken en downloaden via mijn website https://petervan.wordpress.com/. Je kan je daar ook inschrijven: je krijgt dan automatisch een email als er nieuws is.

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Met dank aan:

Mijn familie, mijn mentoren en coaches van the kunstacademies van Overijse en Gent; Joost, Chris, Frank voor de TijdsCapsule, mijn fans, en iedereen die mij bleef en blijft  aanmoedigen om mijn artistieke instincten te volgen. Extra dankwoord voor Peter Hinssen en Cathy Boesmans: ons initieel plan was om de tentoonstelling te laten doorgaan in de AppleChapple in Mater, Oudenaarde, Belgium. Alles stond in de startblokken, maar Covid-19 heeft daar anders over beslist. Uitstel is geen afstel: we komen terug met een aantal art-videos op de vintage Mackintoshes.

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Dat is het zowat. Geniet van de tentoonstelling. Ik kijk uit naar onze volgende ontmoeting of gesprek, virtueel of in levenden lijve. 

Met warme artistieke groet,

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