Robert Pennekamp

"The back side is even better"

mixed technique on both sides

60 x 80 cm

on display at: Buikdanswinkel, Eikenweg 66, 1092 CB, Amsterdam

https://www.buikdanswinkel.eu/

I was invited to make a piece for a project “Ride to Art” in East of Amsterdam. Most of the times it is an easy process. Come up with an idea and make it. Just do it. Then I’ll see. Does it work? How do people react? This time it was more difficult. Positive, caring, uplifting, colorful, size, and the shop owner has also a point of view. Because it is his window. To be positive in such a difficult time as the corona crisis. Everybody is scared, sick, nobody buys anything just for fun, it is just surviving. It is gonna be a difficult time for shop owners and artists too. Yes I can draw or paint an adorable pussycat or dog. Or two hands helping each other. But it ain’t feels good.… I have to come up with something different, challenging, awkward stuff, provoking, layered. I could have expose an abstract or figurative painting. But ... too easy. I had to challenge myself to make something better. I decided to made the first impression of thoughts in my mind as a sign. But with something more to see, so that the shop could have also more visitors. "We zijn open". It is about gratitude. Visitors are still able to visit the store. But also there is also more to see than just the image on the website. So you if you visit you will be rewarded. To get the whole picture, you have to come to see it.

Curriculum:

Robert Pennekamp, multi disciplinaire artist, working and living in Amsterdam

Rietveld Academy, Artless.

https://www.robertpennekamp.nl/cv/

Artist Statement:

https://www.robertpennekamp.nl/robert-pennekamp/artist-statement/

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