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Artist Statement:
Lost Lands, a series of
landscapes, 2003/4
This is a series of landscapes
with lost land as the subject.
These works refer to primal
land, the bygone earth, the
early world which has, in
reality, nearly disappeared.
But our former surroundings
were a part of this ancient
world that remains deep in our
collective, primal
subconscious. We seem to
recognize and grasp this
knowledge of our connection
with our origins
instinctively, although they
remain faded and almost
forgotten memories.
I want, with this series, to
recall those subconscious
memories, to bring this lost
land back, reconstruct it.
The sunset in a burning sky in
each of these works asserts
the awareness of and
dramatizes the passage of
time.
Peter Heij, November 2003
The Figures are 'portraits'
with images depicted from
outside which create and form
the innerworld.
By rendering man as a Figure
'filled in' with images
depicted from their
surroundings, 'portraits'
appear in which the essential
and personal characteristics
are reduced to expression and
outward.
characteristics like a
silhouette or shadow.
A more complete image from
identity can be seen from the
images with which they are
'filled'. These images come
from the figure's
surroundings, images such...
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Artist Reviews:
Publications (selection)
2009 + 2008
Kunstgids/Art Guide Amsterdam;
Edition 2009, pg. 114. Edition
2008, pg. 127.
2008
University of Pennsylvania,
Fox Gallery, Graduate
Humanities Forum,
Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. In
the Beginning, Exploring
Origins in Contemporary Art;
Catalog.
2007
The Uitkrant, Amsterdams
Uitburo; Open Studios
Nieuwmarkt, Amsterdam, with
pict. '...
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Collections:
-Private collectors.
Public Collections;
-R.O.C. Amsterdam Zuidoost,
Netherlands.
-Insurance company Zwolsche
Algemeene,
Netherlands.(commission)
-Municipality of Amsterdam,
Netherlands.
-SBK Amsterdam (Visual Art
Foundation), Netherlands. ...
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Commissions:
(selection)
-2003
Painting with
Gestalten/Figures, a private
commission, Rotterdam,
(Gallery De Opsteker,
Amsterdam) Netherlands.
-1996
Painting titled; 'De Zwolsche
Mens' for design-agency Keja
Donia, for the collection of
the insurance company Zwolsche
Algemeene, Netherlands.
-1995
Painting with the building of
D'Light in commission of
O'Neill, Drongen...
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Peter Heij, born in Utrecht in 1960, lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He attended the Royal Academy for Art and Design, Den Bosch from 1982 to 1987, specializing in painting. Works during this period, and thereafter include figurative, expressionistic, abstract, and a continuation of the realism with which he originally started in his youth and in the period before academy, now enriched with the knowledge gained at the academy.
Many of the themes and subjects of these works deal with people and their relationship of their surroundings to their identities; landscapes with reconstructions of the past and skyscapes, attempting to catch and shape that which cannot be captured.
The experience of new and changed insights and awareness through elevation above and distance from everyday reality, never completely losing sight of that reality, stands central in his work.
He has regularly exhibited both in the Netherlands and abroad.
Recent solo exhibitions took place at Gallery Stam, Amsterdam, with an overview of the Lost Land series (2008), and at Gallery Acculade, Amsterdam IJburg, where the comparision between older and recent work contrasting the themes of the inner and outer worlds (2008). The series Figures/Gestalten was shown at the Sint Antoniesbreestraat (a street exhibition) as a commission from the art commission of Wijkcentrum d’Oude Stadt (city of Amsterdam Centre) (2005).
Recent group exhibitions took place at University of Pennsylvania, Fox Gallery, Graduate Humanities Forum, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. with the theme; In the Beginning, Exploring Origins in Contemporary Art (painting Lost Land IX) (2008), at Castle Nyenrode/Gallery Peter Leen, Breukelen/Gemeentehuis Maarsen (2007) and at 8Q Mondial Global Exhibition Show Your Hope, Fnd. 80 Questions (travelling since 2007).
He has made travels significant to artistic development to the U.S.A. (among other in 2003/2006/2009), Italy (since 1973, recent 2004), Vietnam (2001), Sri Lanka (1999), Thailand (1995/1996), and Indonesia (1997/1994).
Education
1982 - 1987
Royal Academy for Art and Design (akv > St Joost), Den Bosch. Specialized in painting.
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2009 + 2010
Open Studios Nieuwmarkt, Amsterdam.
2008
Gallery Stam, Amsterdam.
Gallery Acculade, Amsterdam IJburg.
2007
Open Studios Nieuwmarkt, Amsterdam.
2005
Wijkcentrum d'Oude Stadt, project 'Figures in the Sint Antoniesbreestraat', Amsterdam.
Gallery Acculade, Amsterdam IJburg.
2001
de Baak Art Gallery, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
Group exhibitions (selection)
2011
Gallery Stam, Amsterdam.
Gallery 'S', exhibition 'Contrasts', Amsterdam.
2009 + 2010
Gallery Stam, Amsterdam.
Open Studios Nieuwmarkt, central exhibition.
2008
Hotel Gallery Pulitzer, Amsterdam.
Gallery Stam, Amsterdam.
University of Pennsylvania, Fox Gallery, Graduate Humanities Forum, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. In the Beginning, Exploring Origins in Contemporary Art.
2007
Gallery Peter Leen/Castle Nyenrode, Breukelen, Townhall Maarssen, The Netherlands.
Open Studios Nieuwmarkt, central exhibitions at Chiellerie and Pintohuis, Amsterdam.
8Q Mondial Global Exhibition Show Your Hope, Fnd. 80 Questions.
2006 + 2007
M.I.A.D. Venado Tuerto 2006 International Exhibition of digital art, Sante Fe, Argentina.
2006
Gallery Acculade, Amsterdam IJburg.
2005
Gallery Peter Leen, Breukelen, The Netherlands.
2004
Holland Art Fair, The Hague, The Netherlands-Gallery De Opsteker (Amsterdam).
2003
Lineart art fair, Gent, Belgium-Gallery De Opsteker (Amsterdam).
Allegany Arts Council-Saville Gallery, Will's Creek Survey, Cumberland, Maryland, U.S.A.
2002 + 2003
Holland Art Fair, The Hague, The Netherlands-Gallery De Opsteker (Amsterdam).
1999
Gallery Ploos van Amstel, Summer-and Autumn Exhibitions, Amsterdam.
1998 + 1999
Institute for Religian Sciences, State University Groningen, The Netherlands; Eternal Vulnerable. Modern Art and Religion.
Feb/Mar 1999
Museum Abtei Kamp, Kamp-Lintfort, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Jan/Oct 1998
Faculty for Religian Science, State University-Museum Gerardus van de Leeuw, Gron.
Museum voor Religian Art, Uden, The Netherlands.
Museum Begijncourtchurch, Saint-Truiden, Belgium.
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