• Technical

Original color silkscreen print on art paper, signed and numbered by the artist in an edition of 150. Framed by our workshops in matte slate grey, with a floating museum conservation mount.

“Claryl” anti-reflective protective glass.

Dimensions: 100 x 76 cm (excluding frame).

Artwork delivered with a certificate of authenticity.

• Artist biography

Peter Klasen was born in Lübeck, Germany in 1935.
From 1956 to 1959 he studied at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts.
In 1959, having won the German industry patronage prize, he obtained a scholarship and moved to Paris.
Peter Klasen was one of the founders in the 1960s of the artistic movement called New Figuration or Narrative Figuration.

He then developed a personal visual language, exploring and reinterpreting the signs of our urban environment, and more generally, of our society. Industrial themes profoundly mark his work. Thus, in Peter Klasen's paintings, one finds elements such as pressure gauges, sheet metal from construction equipment, metal locks, and truck tarpaulins. Logos, numbers, and photographs from magazines or posters are also present.

Internationally recognized, Peter Klasen's work can be seen in dozens of museums and public collections. His works have been the subject of numerous monographs.

PAST EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION):

• 2006: “Nowhere Anywhere”, France-Brazil Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba; “Photography and its double”, Sonia Zannettacci Gallery, Geneva; retrospective, Contemporary Art Center, Meymac.
• 2008: “Obras 1965-2007, Havana gesture 2006”, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana.
• 2009: “Peter Klasen, retrospective 1959-2009”, Le Tri Postal, Lille and Roncq, France, as well as at the LAAC in Dunkirk.
• 2010: Rencontres de la photographie d'Arles, France.
• 2011: “Peter Klasen, retrospective 1961-2011” Minimes convent, Perpignan.
• 2012: “White Spaces Lost Landscapes”, Guy Pieters gallery, Knokke-le-Zoute.
• 2013: “Lost Landscapes”, from December 6, 2013 to January 4, 2014, Laurent Strouk Gallery, Paris.
• 2015: “Peter Klasen, dialogue with the masters”, from June 13, 2015 to August 30, 2015, L'aspirateur lieu d'art contemporain, Narbonne, exhibition catalogue, text by Renaud Faroux.
• 2016: “Peter Klasen. Stopover in Saint-Malo”, from June 25 to September 24, 2016, Centre Cristel Éditeur d'Art, Saint-Malo.