Peter Klashorst - Mixed media on canvas - 2004 - Sold

Mixed media (acrylic and black marker) on canvas by Peter Klashorst from 2004. Dimensions top: H60 x w50cm. The work is signed and dated top right (04). The authenticity of this work is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request.

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From 1976 to 1981 he attended the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Here he met the brothers Maarten and Rogier van der Ploeg and together they founded the new wave band Interior, in which Klashorst plays bass guitar. In 1981, Interior mutated 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 considered one of the New Wilds. His exuberant painting was awarded the Royal Subsidy for Painting in 1983.
In 1987, after conversations in Tenerife with the Czech artist Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Klashorst 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 infamous. In 1995 the After Nature group disbanded again. In the meantime, this group had also founded the Amsterdam Institute for Painting (AIS), where they organized open painting workshops. In 1997 Klashorst again took part in the reunion of the band Soviet Sex and released the album Hotel Winston. In that year, Teleac also released the series Painting with Acrylic on television in which Klashorst, in one of the episodes, stands behind the easel in a characteristic manner at one point with his pants around his ankles and his lower body bare.
Klashorst regularly surprised the art public with a new painting style, but also regularly made national news with his loose lifestyle. He painted and photographed many ladies in Africa. In 2000, he ended up in a police cell in predominantly Muslim Senegal. He was suspected of inciting debauchery and producing obscene images for painting local women naked. By bribing officials, he managed to get bail and quietly escape the country via Gambia. Later he regularly stayed in Nairobi, Mombasa (Kenya) and Bangkok (Thailand).
In 2003 King Klashorst, an authorized biography by Robert Vuijsje, was published. In 2006 he made headlines with the founding of the 'artists' party Huisje-boompje-beestje', which received 787 votes (0.3%) in the municipal elections in Amsterdam that year.
In early 2011, an exhibition took place at the Tuol Sleng Museum in Phnom Penh (Cambodia). Klashorst painted portraits of the victims of the Khmer Rouge period, which he then edited with a spray can. The project was supported by UNESCO.
His autobiography Kunstkannibaal was published in 2011, 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 was announced that Klashorst was suffering from AIDS.