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Artist Exhibitions:
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 ...
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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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Artist Statement for Peter Heij
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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 as landscapes, still-lifes, and cityscapes; the images from the outer world reflecting the innerworld, the identity.
Peter Heij, June 2003
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