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ALMOST SOLD OUT, HENK PEETERS, THE WORKS, HIS NETWORK AND HIS FRIENDS YVES KLEIN, PIERO MANZONI, ARMANDO, YAYOI KUSAMA AND THE JAPANESE GUTAI ARTISTS (order now at 10,-€)

12/3/2020

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Henk Peeters (°1925, The Hague) was considered one of the most active members of the Dutch NUL movement. Together with other Dutch artists such as Jan Schoonhoven, Armando and Jan Henderikse, he formed NUL in the 1960’s, which later joined the international movement ZERO. As a result of growing international contacts, Peeters initiated ‘Zero on Sea’, an art manifestation in the summer of 1965 on a pier in Scheveningen, including about 50 likeminded artists from over ten countries. 
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Peeters’ work is closely inspired by daily life and natural phenomena. By using mass-produced clinical materials such as nylon and plastic and assimilating them through processes like fire, ice, snow and mist, he aims to reinitiate the viewer’s consciousness towards his environment.

The artistic practice of Henk Peeters was known for its diversity in material and technique, going from burned canvasses to readymades bought in chainstores. Often these objects show a strong duality between being both tactile and untouchable. As the artist once said: “with my work, I have always wanted it to look just as fresh as if it was in the HEMA (the Dutch chain store). It must not be artified... I had no need for artistic cotton wool.”
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EXTENDED: Henk Peeters in Pompidou-Metz with Yves Klein

12/1/2020

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In 2020, Centre Pompidou Metz will stage “the Sky as Studio. Yves Klein and his contemporaries" - an exhibition exploring the theme of space and the dematerialization of art in the works of Yves Klein and his fellow artists. It focuses on the collaboration between Yves Klein and significant figures from the groups Zero, Nul, the Italian Spatialist movement as well as Gutai artists, to cast light on a shared vision of space as a new artistical dimension and as a territory to conquer. Emma Lavigne curates the exhibition. The exhibition will include an early soot-painting by Henk Peeters. The exhibition runs until 1 FEBRUARY 2021. 

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Tate London publication; the Burn Hole

10/1/2019

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The Tate London acquired several years ago one of the most essential and spectacular "burned" holes, a pyrography, by Henk Peeters. The research department from the Tate started a research project on Peeters's Burn Hole from 1961 and is currently preparing a publication on the research. It comprises six papers, five of which have been written by Professor Michael White, University of York; the sixth, a conservation paper, is by Carla Flack, Tate, and Dr. Emma Richardson, University College London. The project is scholarly, peer-reviewed, and will be published open-access on Tate's website.
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Manzoni (and friends) in Holland*

2/17/2019

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For the first time in the Netherlands in 50 years the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam presents an extensive retrospective of his work under the title Manzoni in Holland. Not only does the exhibition – from 16 February to 2 June 2019 – examine his artistic development, but Manzoni’s collaboration with artists in the Netherlands (Henk Peeters, Jan Schoonhoven) and other countries (Yves Klein, Otto Piene) also receives ample treatment. The book Manzoni in Holland, which accompanies the exhibition, discusses in detail the cooperation of Manzoni with Hans Sonnenberg, the Dutch Zero artists, the international Zero movement and the impact of his views on the artists of Zero and others after that.
Artist in the exhibition: Marina Abramovic/Ulay, Armando, Marinus Boezem, Kees van Bohemen, Agostino Bonalumi, stanley brouwn, Enrico Castellani, Karl Fred Dahmen, Ger van Elk, Lucio Fontana, Jan Henderikse, Oskar Holweck, Yves Klein, Heinz Mack, Piero Manzoni, Wim Motz, Henk Peeters, Otto Piene, Ian J. Pieters, Gust Romijn, Joop Sanders, Emil Schumacher, Wim T. Schippers, Jan Schoonhoven, herman de vries, Jaap Wagemaker.
Website Stedelijk Museum >>>
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The Spirit of Sixties London at S|2 Gallery's Signals Exhibition

4/29/2018

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From 27 April to 13 July 2018, S│2 London will present an exhibition dedicated to the spirit of Signals London. During its two years of existence, Signals brought together a network of Latin American, European, Asian, and North American artists in London. The history of the gallery as a place for artists from across the world to gather and experiment without limits has rarely been told, and holds as much relevance today as it did during the early sixties in London. Click ahead to view the slideshow, which features works from the first of four displays that will take place at S|2.
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Henk Peeters, on the other side of the world: Tasmania

10/18/2017

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The exhibition includes major installations by the Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, Günther Uecker, Yves Klein, Gianni Colombo, Enrico Castellani, Henk Peeters, Christian Megert, Jesus Rafael Soto and works by Yaacov Agam, Davide Boriani, Pol Bury, Gabriele di Vecchi, Julio Le Parc, Francois Morellet, Paul Talman, Jean Tingeley, plus Lucio Fontana, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Hans Arp and Victor Vasarely. ZERO in Vibration at the Mona (Museum of Old and New Art) Hobart from June 9th, 2018 until April 22nd, 2019.
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    Peeters Archive

    The physical Henk Peeters Archive is at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD) in The Hague (NL).

    The digital Henk Peeters Archive is maintained by Mattijs Visser, and an initiative from the Dutch 0-INSTITUTE.

    The 0-INSTITUTE holds a collection and has an archive, with a focus on artist groups from the international ZERO movement. 

    ​This digital web-archive focusses mainly on the period 1957-1966.

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