Peter Klashorst - Screen printing, Nairobi

A beautiful silkscreen print by Peter Klashorst Title: Nairobi Dimensions: H. 78 x W. 57 cm Edition: 135, edition number may differ from the photo. Hand signed. Visual artist Peter Klashorst, born on 11 February 1957 in Santpoort, quickly gained fame after graduating in 1981 from the Amsterdam Rietveld Academy. During this period, Klashorst not only focused on his painting; he indulged his artistic talents in his punk band Soviet Sex, his own pirate TV station Bizar TV and his discotheque Bizar-discotheque. Peter Klashorst began his career in the period of neo-expressionism in the Netherlands, the "new wild ones". In the mid-eighties, Klashorst's powerful expressive style froze, his canvases became more abstract, the colours disappeared and he joined the "neo geo" movement with his geometric work. In 1987, he discussed the crisis of modernism with his colleagues Rob Scholte and Jiri Dokoupil on Tenerife: What can you still paint as a painter now that everything has already been painted? Klashorst and Dokoupil stated that painting had to be reinvented and started to copy reality, as painters did before modernism. This is how the group After Nature was born, which revived genres such as nude, landscape and still life. As co-initiator of the artist collective After Nature, Klashorst gave a new impulse to Dutch art history. The After Nature group (1987-1995), which besides founder Klashorst also included the artists Jurriaan van Hall, Gijs and Aad Donker, Ernst Voss and Bart Domburg, opposed the prevailing abstract expressionism and made a splash in the eighties and nineties with an innovative figurative painting style and turned away from the "is one" in art. Their relationship to subjects and with the public was very direct and free of pretensions. Their joint performances on the street, in nature and during art manifestations were both well-known and notorious. That "snobbery" and "idealism" were also included in the demolition was evident when Klashorst subsequently emerged as a portrait painter of "tout Amsterdam" and his participation in various TV programs: De Sprekende Ezel, Ikon and Schilderen in acryl met Peter Klashorst, Teleac/NOT. Peter Klashorst (1957) graduated in 1981 from the Gerrit