The man on the street by Peter van Straten
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The man on the street by Peter van Straten.
Everard Read Gallery, CT. 7-22 June 2011
My God what a world! And what hopes I once had of grasping it .
oil on canvas board / 61 x 91 cm
The Lens . oil on canvas board / 85 x 120 cm
Detail from: The poet van Rensburg contemplates the erotic possibilities of loss
The poet van Rensburg contemplates the erotic possibilities of loss. Oil on canvas board/ 90 x 70 cm
Detail from When all that's left down here is love
Detail from When all that's left down here is love. oil on canvas board / 100 X 134 cm
The embrace. oil on canvas board / 90 x 120 cm
The vanishing . oil on canvas board / 90 x 70 cm
Detail from: Experiments in bliss
Experiments in bliss. oil on canvas board / 90 x 70 cm
The decision. oil on canvas board / 90 x 70 cm
The man on the street. oil on canvas board / 90 x 120 cm
Staying in touch . oil on canvas board / 61 x 122 cm
Revolution. oil on canvas board / 90 x 120 cm
In the quiet corners of a life. oil on canvas board / 90 x 120 cm
The bull and the ballerina . oil on canvas board / 90 x 120 cm
Euler's formula. oil on canvas board / 90 x 70 cm
Red line with soil and coal. oil on canvas board / 70 x 90 cm
Why so sad that you cannot fly (when you never had wings to begin with)? oil on canvas board / 90 x 70 cm
The man on the street by Peter van Straten. Everard Read Gallery, CT
(7-22 June 2011)
Tragicomedy is Peter van Straten. Few contemporary South African painters have managed to combine such
painfully poignant, personal truths with the outrageous misfortune and hilarity of the human conundrum, by
magnifying the foibles and follies of brave, clueless protagonists in grave, forbidding landscapes. In his latest
exhibition “The man on the street”, van Straten’s socio-political farces avoid overt finger-pointing, and so delve
into the heart of what it is to be human. Here he investigates paradoxes: futility and hubris; creativity and
destruction; design and coincidence; indifference and longing, and all from the very personal stance of a
bemused yet defiant soul assaulted by the complex stimuli that constitute life.
This is Peter van Straten’s first solo exhibition at Everard Read.
Please join us at 3 Portswood Road, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town.
For more information contact us on +27 21 418 4527 or [email protected].
Detail from: My God what a world! And what hopes I once had of grasping it .
Giclee limited edition prints from Peter van Straten’s previous exhibitions can be purchased at
The South African Print Gallery, CT www.printgallery.co.za