KLASEN

Jun 3, 2014

Peter Klasen is born in Lubeck, Germany in 1935.
Lives and works in France.

From 1956 to 1959, Peter Klasen studied at the School of Fine Arts in Berlin. In 1959, winner of the mécennat of German industry, he obtained a scholarship and moved to Paris.

Peter Klasen is in the 60, a founder of the artistic movement called New figuration or narrative figuration. He develops a personal visual language, exploring and reinterpreting the signs of our urban environment, and more generally in our society.

Industrial theme profoundly marked his work. We thus find in the paintings of Peter Klasen, items such as pressure gauges, gear plate public works, metal locks, truck tarpaulins .. Also present logos, numbers and pictures from magazines or posters .

Painter of the urban concrete and metal, Peter Klasen explores the depths and vertigo of a dehumanized society. His works are present in more than 60 museums and public collections worldwide.

His works have been the subject of numerous monographs.

“Painting frees me from my anxieties”

What motivates you to paint ?? An engine that is up and running all alone, like a Volkswagen. Well, it’s not really a good example, right now, with the problems of the brand …

Photography. Photo feeds my future work. I leave my travels and I’m sorting the workshop. From this material, I develop new themes. Photographing the reality is not reduced but the sublime. This is an investigation of reality through the lens. The close-up limits our field of vision and focus our attention.

Language. I developed an antibody language that resists permanent aggression exerted on me the outside world. This is the summary of my life. The strength necessary to meet the individual and collective threat that we face.

Anguish. There is a common thread in all my work: loneliness, anxiety ?; this is what I feel in this society that ultimately makes us sick. This is as a painter, with my images, I try to free myself, to find answers.

Thought. It is three-dimensional: painter, photographer and sculptor. People know the painter and photographer but they often forget the sculptor.

New York. The discovery of a mythical place and the same time the rediscovery of a city that cinema had already perfectly told me.

Walls. The places on the fringes of our cities, underground, scrap, landfill yards, the hidden faces of our industrial world exert a strange fascination for me.

Wife. Always eroticized. It does not escape its reassuring aesthetic that brings us back to life. Through fragments of the female body, I invite the viewer to do the job.

Contemporary art. I think of the greater good, I accompany. This is more exciting than ever. Above the Street Art, a reaction to what the city offers us. Our tables are too small.

If you had not been a painter ?? Musician. My father was a musician in his spare time. He played the violin Brahms, Bach, Mahler …

CHHOUR

Jun 3, 2014

Chhour Kaloon was born in 1968. His family lives in Hong Kong is original Chinese province of Canton. It is now a French citizen and lives and has his studio in Nice.

After studying at the Hong Kong Art Academy, he attended painting classes in Paris, where he discovered and is passionate about the Great Impressionist masters, who themselves were inspired by Asian art. Her style is figurative but in the beginning it is rapidly moving towards Impressionism and Fauvism.

He remains true to this style for many years but at 35, shortly after his arrival on the French Riviera, it radically evolves towards abstraction while maintaining its palette of strong colors, the power line, the harmony of volumes, an underlying calligraphy and the technique of oil painting.

Chhour Kaloon like the warm colors: yellow, orange also strong colors like black, red. In fact, these paintings are colorful, powerful.

His paintings are highly technical and structured with glaze, the dripping, leaks, use mediums of different brushes and knives but Kaloon Chhour all this is a set of resources to research the agreement volumes, colors emphasizing the feeling on form.

Kaloon Chhour exhibited in numerous galleries in France and abroad (SHANGHAI – PARIS – NICE ….)

He is a member of Amber International, Academy of Fine Arts in Provence Côte d’Azur and is Academician of the Accademia Internazionale Greci Marino.

Chhour is the revelation of poetic abstraction by combining Impressionist and Asian influences.

Renowned among amateurs, his work is present in many prestigious collections worldwide.

Kaloon Chhour recently been the subject of a laudatory article in the prestigious artist Gazette Drouot animated by a rare knack for harmony compositions and colors, it offers us an original work that acts as a mirror to emotions.

It is touted as a successor of Zao Wou-ki and Chu Teh-chun and whose listing on the market only upwards.