In St. Petersburg at two venues - the Museum Ludwig of the State Russian Museum (Marble Palace) and in the gallery Lazarev gallery - open a personal exhibition of German artist Eric Peters, "Light of the game"

in St. Petersburg at two venues - the Museum Ludwig of the State Russian Museum (Marble Palace) and a private gallery Lazarev gallery - open solo exhibition of German artist Eric Peters' "Light Games».

Eric Peters - one of the most important young artists of the modern Federal Republic of Germany. His painting style is amazing, his paintings captivate the viewer. Craftsmanship of the artist, his imagination and creative will, and sometimes grotesque themes embodied in the works, every time stimulate the active perception of the viewer. Energy Peters, accurate work with color, expressive power of his works reflect the issues that we all face in everyday life: man and nature, the fragility of the environment, insecurity of the universe.

• ERIC PETERS If you will be my crown, I'll be your throne. 2002
  wood, oil on canvas, watercolor. 124 x 83

addition to a single exposure, in the Lazarev gallery will be on display special video projection "LKSH -group », born of a unique fantasy world and the intellectual nature of the artist. It elephants overcome the forces of gravity, and beautiful women who had never been born, are on their heads crowns of wild animals. Predators and their prey, herbivorous and carnivorous, side by side in his world together in harmony.

influenced outlook artist influenced the practice of yoga, which he is engaged in more than twenty years. "I created a new identity - said Eric Peters - and I just do not know what happens. Person - is a mirror of the inner world, the boundary between internal and external. Sorcery - the inner life rather than on the surface of the canvas. Canvas - this is rather a gateway to yourself when you get on the other side of the pictures. This is a mirror that returns the viewer to his inner life ».

• ERIC PETERS Tibetan circle - I never
  not really die. 1993. Oil on wood. 210 x 250

Eric Peters, as he claims, refused to "give his ego too much space . On the grounds that "if the space around me is too much, I get too lonely. Freedom in art means that I find the implementation. With thanks to intensive work of selfishness there are fewer places. This is true liberation, the only thing a person can really find. So easy to Eric Peters said the essence of Zen, even without naming him.

• ERIC PETERS Light Games Nefertiti. 2002
  Handmade paper, canvas, oil. 272 x 218

Critics on the work of Eric Peters:

First of all, Peters - a magnificent, rare portrayer. Of course, he can use, and digital technologies, but often enjoys the good old pictorial means, moreover, pays great attention to issues rukomesla, medieval-craft fundamentals of the profession. Today it is "very few people is: who - from conceptual considerations, denial of mimetic myth, who - just because of the inability. Also Peters run all sorts of links to the iconography of the textbook may be wide chronological spread - from Nefertiti to pikassovskogo Minotaur. /... /And finally, the main thing. Peters, I believe, primarily a painter of consciousness, mental visualization and psychotic states. Wednesday, posed Peters, not only mimetichna, otobrazhayuscha. It is visually dense, even redundant. It is characteristic of Oriental spice. Baroque visual and sensual excessiveness.

Alexander Borovsky, head of the Division of the latest trends
State Russian Museum, Honored Artist of Russia

Eric Peters uses conventional painting techniques, and he was from the outset not to create works in terms of craftsmanship committed. Many of his works look as though they were not created in the twentieth century - this is especially true of those works which are not based hand-made paper on canvas, and there are many. We are talking about some kind of special basis for the painting, which Peters prepares himself very complex way: on the multiple layers of a mixture of glue and torn into small pieces of waste paper he deals for three or four layers of adhesive and high quality raw materials for paper, cotton. Sometimes this mix he adds bitumen and dried and ground leaves or straw. These materials float to the top, sometimes they are seen as black-brown specks. Each layer requires a lot of time to dry, so by itself to prepare the ground - a very long procedure. Here the painter to emerge as a craftsman, which is given to the material preparation of its future work with a great expenditure of physical strength. The result are works that look as though they have already passed the aging process, so the association with "old masters" here has a good reason.

Dr. Barbara Tiemann, Dortmund

The exhibition runs until August 27, 2010.

Source: museum.ru