Peter Buggenhout: The Edge is my Home | 03.10-14.12.2024
Courtesy the artist and Holtermann Fine Art, Photo Dirk Pauwels
“Telluric, tumorous, organic, lunar and magmatic in appearance and inclined to host many more adjectives yet without accepting any of them, the works of Peter Buggenhout do not objectively resemble anything, nor do they relate anything at all. They are and it is based on this very existence – deprived of quality and utility, disturbing through its lack of differentiation – that they fully participate in reality, to become the imprint of past, present, and probably future events without respecting either meaning or order of appearance. At heart, this is perhaps what the work as a whole brings up to date, both in the contraction and the explosion of matter: a pure space that Rilke calls ‘the Open’ – das Offene – that suspends the chronological and linear time of narration in order to liberate the undifferentiated and unlimited time of the abyss.”
From Ansen Selen: Down Side Up - published in No Shade in Paradise: Peter Buggenhout, exhibition catalogue, Neues Museum, Nürnberg, 2017, p. 232
Holtermann Fine Art is honoured to present works by Peter Buggenhout in the artist’s second exhibition at the gallery.
Buggenhout’s unique and compelling oeuvre consists of autonomous, seemingly disparate groups of sculptural objects. Resisting interpretation and devoid of symbols, the works engage the viewer in a dialogue on our inability to comprehend the complexity of the world. Speaking strong individual languages there are visual traces of Robert Rauschenberg’s Combines, Arte Povera’s use of found material and the industrial detritus application by artists like John Chamberlain in works that defy easy interpretation yet draws the viewer into their individual cosmos.
On view will be the latest work from The Blind leading the Blind group; works from Buggenhout’s new King Louie series, a large wall-bound sculpture from On Hold as well as works from the Mont Ventoux and Mute Witness groups.
