Peter Klasen

My childhood would have been without history if there had not been the war whose my family suffered like so many others. Neither my father nor my uncle – this last, painter, were pupil of Otto Ten – returned from Russia where they had been sent. My first memories are related to these dramas and the terrible bombardments, of my city…

Artist Peter Klasen is a master of contrasts. Of fragment and entirety, of hard plate against soft skin. He is constantly finding new approaches…

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LA MAISON KLASEN

„Since the sixties, Peter Klasen has been one of the co-founders of `figurative narrative`. In his collage pictures, he processes today´s world of the media: photographs, illustrated newspapers, films, advertisements and medical journals. With this approach, he contrasts different image stimulators: the sensualitiy of provocative breasts and the functionalitiy of a light switch. Sex appeal and fears. When female attractions are in opposition to the world of technology – we see humanity exposed to high tension – this is Klasen´s key expression.