Peter Klashorst - ingelijst acryl op Thaise krant op board - 2004 - Sold

Portrait of Peter Klashorst from his better period when time and attention was still devoted to his works. Year: 2004. Technique: acrylic on newsprint pasted on board. Picture dimensions: H42 x W28 cm. The work is signed at the top: Peter Klashorst, Bangkok, 12-04. The authenticity of this work is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request.

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When purchasing, the work can be picked up in 's-Gravenzande (near The Hague).
(Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 5 minutes from the beach). The deadline for it
pick up, with payment in advance, is very generous, in other words, the buyer can work for weeks or even
months later and, if possible, combine it with a visit to one of the
above towns or the beach. We can also ship the work. Our shipping days are Tuesday and Thursday.

Peter Klashorst, actually Peter van de Klashorst (Santpoort, February 11, 1957) is a Dutch painter, photographer and musician. From 1976 to 1981 he attended the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Here he meets the brothers Maarten and Rogier van der Ploeg and together they set up the new wave band Interior, in which Klashorst plays bass guitar. In 1981 Interior mutates into Soviet Sex, still with the Van der Ploeg brothers. During this time, the three are also active in the pirate television channel PKP TV (Ploeg/Klashorst/Ploeg), which was founded by them. During the 1980s, Klashorst was counted among the New Wilds. His exuberant painting was awarded the Royal Subsidy for Painting in 1983.
In 1987 Klashorst, after conversations in Tenerife with the Czech artist Jiri Georg Dokoupil, started the Amsterdam-based artist collective After Nature, which opposed the prevailing abstract expressionism. Their joint performances on the street, in nature and during art events were well known and notorious. In 1995 the After Nature group fell apart again. In the meantime, this group had also founded the Amsterdam Institute for Painting (AIS), where they organized open painting workshops. In 1997 Klashorst also takes part in the reunion of the band Soviet Sex and releases the album Hotel Winston. In that year, Teleac also broadcasts the series Painting with Acrylic on television, in which Klashorst stands behind the easel in one of the episodes in a manner characteristic of him, with his trousers on his ankles and bare lower body.
Klashorst regularly surprised the art public with a new painting style, but also regularly made the national news with his dissolute lifestyle. He painted and photographed many ladies in Africa. In 2000, he ended up in a police cell in the predominantly Muslim Senegal. He was suspected of inciting debauchery and making obscene images for painting local women nude. By bribing officials, he managed to buy himself out on bail and to flee the country in silence via the Gambia. Later he regularly stayed in Nairobi, Mombassa (Kenya) and Bangkok (Thailand).
In 2003 King Klashorst was published, an authorized biography by Robert Vuijsje. In 2006 he made the press with the foundation of the 'artist party Huisje-boompje-beestje', which obtained 787 votes (0.3%) in the municipal elections in Amsterdam that year.
In early 2011, an exhibition was held at the Tuol Sleng Museum in Phnom Penh (Cambodia). Klashorst painted the victims of the Khmer Rouge period, portraits that he then edited with a spray can. The project was supported by UNESCO.
In 2011 his autobiography Kunstkannibaal was published, the publication of which was accompanied by a lot of media attention. In December 2011 Klashorst exhibited his Cambodian portrait series in the Amsterdam gallery Naleye, supplemented with recent work.
In January 2014 it became known that Klashorst suffers from AIDS.[