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Opus one 19994/20/2023 ![]() I think it works." On 30 August 2010 Eckhard Hoog in the Aachener Nachrichten Online reported that Eric Peters "makes splash in Saint Petersburg" and plans a further exhibition in Houston, Texas, next year. Peters' (art) is a kind of antidote for Hermeticism and the rationality of modern art. Eric Peters is a painter "of consciousness, a visualizer of psychic and psychotic states," writes Alexander Borovsky, head of the department for contemporary art movements of the Russian State Museum (Государственный Русский музей) Saint Petersburg in the catalog of the exhibition Light Games, and explains at the end of his remarks: "Eric Peters found a way that will be needed, since many feel a lack in modern art, a deficit of visual challenge to neo-Baroque, sculptural exuberance, of acrobatic circus tricks, and finally a lack of mystery. The bizarre aesthetics of flawless strange women, animals and mythical creatures touch the human longing for mystery and beauty." The illusion in the area and the sensuality of the paintings arouse the viewer's desire to explore the surface of the images not only with the eyes, but to touch the images, the flawless complexion of the woman faces, the skins of wild cats and the glass and to touch metal surfaces of bowls and jars. "Eric Peters's images draw the viewer with a fascinating force in a strange spell. Playing with the human mentality, with our emotions and customary ideas about surrounding life is in the basis of Peters's art." "The circle as a symbol of perfect harmony is found as a compositional basic element of Eric Peters painting in many of his works." The circle refers to the struggle of the artist with the philosophical systems of East Asia. Eric Peters "charms the viewer with the high quality of execution and with the polisemy of the fantastic world of the unusual images. Anchored in the traditions of Symbolism, Dada, Surrealism and the Viennese School in Fantasia realism, he uses several traditions of the history of art. Painting of Eric Peters in a German private houseĮric Peters work circles the secrets of the creation and the depths of the human soul, which he aims to explore with the motif repertoire of portrait, landscape and animals. ![]() ![]() Peters has been successful in Europe and the U.S. Since 1987, Peters worked as a freelance artist. His personal teacher at that time was Sandra Sabatini. Peters' interest in east-Asian philosophies and life led him in 1986 to an intensive engagement with the Yoga-school of Vanda Scaravelli. In 1982 Peters founded the Design-Pool company. Since 1979 Peters also designed and crafted furniture. In 1979 Peters was sponsored by the German-French-Youth-Exchange Organisation, which allowed him to deepen his studies of art and design in France. Symposium of the German-French-Youth-Exchange Organisation in the French town Bordeaux and realised the Kultur-Natur-Pyramide (Land Art in the Pyrenees). After joining an "Exhibition of Young Artists" at the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum of Aachen, he was rewarded in 1976 with the Sponsorship Award of the City of Aachen. Peters is one of the famous graduates of this university. Eric Peters (born 3 October 1952 in Stolberg (Rhineland), Germany) is a German painter, who now lives and works in Aachen.Īfter Eric Peters had finished his high school education he joined the Fachhochschule Aachen – the University of Applied Science in Aachen where he graduated from his fashion design studies with distinction in 1974. ![]()
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