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Willem Pieter Zandvliet~x~ Audio: Pieter's "Krimpos-Noise Remixes"  ~ My Name is Pieter Zandvliet and I come and live in the Netherlands. With every work I try to put my imagination on canvas. I mix everything I see in my head, and it comes out of my hands with many lines and mostly on the comic way. I call my work comic brut/comic raw. I make also wall drawings and illustrations. So I hope you enjoy my work. For my digital drawings I first make a drawing on paper, than I scan the drawing in the computer and colour him in on photoshop. I work as an illustrator and am working on my own T'shirt line. And I'm gonna print some of the digital drawings on canvas later this year. The most important thing I like with my work is to let them travel over the World and make people happy. Pieter Zandvliet was first an animator and took up painting murals and graffiti in Holland in the 1980's. His funky works take many formats and he is very open to exploring exchanges with artists all over the world as he is with new materials to work with. He ran the Gallery Slaphanger in Rotterdam, Holland, an active art community where art exhibitions, poetry readings and performances took place in the 1990's up until 2002. His work has been widely exhibited on the Internet and in gallery exhibitions throughout the underground and mainstream European art scene. He shuns categories, often changing paths to avoid being labeled on 'type' of artist. He is also the founding member of Dada Boise Group Krimpos as well as a performance artist. In spite of his birthplace being that of Leiden, the birthplace of Rembrandt, he doesn't claim to admire his Dutch forefather in art-receiving more inspiration from the underground comic book scene. His inspiration also comes from art and culture of Spain, Mexice, Africa, Indonesia and the United States. This is due to the influx of ethnic cultures juxtaposition along side traditional Dutch values, such as personal freedom to do what one wants. Zandvliet probably knows more about American Pop Icons than most Americans and will in 2004 live his long time dream is to exhibit his work in America. He also loves Elvis Presley very much.
 Here's another text
from Pieter himself~
 Young Elvis ~ Hoofdstraat 307 3114GE Schiedam NETHERLANDS wwweb: www.eye-cramps.com  |
As a child, he do never sign have
been stopped everywhere on, actual this more. From a year or
eight ago made Pieter Zandvliet (Lead 1969) many strips. But
he was never could about this actual satisfied over, in the subjects
he actual its story not in rid. In 1994, he began a kind of cartoons
on stickers of A4 size in Rotterdam on to stick. All stickers
were different and mostly reacted sand creek on its surroundings
with the stickers. As sign he going out soldiers to times of
a breaking out war. Street art do not speaks be Zandvliet so
and so awful at through to dirty pure. In 1994 began he also
with the working and heat of synthetic material as for instance
Barbies and langspeelplaten., . As stood there a photograph of
its work in a biography over Barbie (title book + edition). After
a year or two began sand creek with paint, in which he with my
passion for draw more its egg discharge could. With dikke out-lines
reproduced sand creek its fable figures. Colors were and are
yet always in war on the cloths or in its beginning time wooden
flats. In 1998, sand creek the Fortisbank public price won during
the duplicate chamber an Annual back turning art demonstration
in Schiedam. A year later on he painted a large art object in
the Urban museum to Schiedam, to times of the 100 birthday existence
of this museum. Sand creek is opgegroeid in the Rotterdam district
Delfshaven, where in contact came with all sorts of cultures,
where he awful many interests for the mixing of cultures got.
This back is to be found on the cloths that he paints. As child
went sand creek with its parents minimally two turn per year
to friends and family in Spain, where he on street the language
wanted to speak and a large love for the country and in it particularly
for catalonie . a,. Just the gesturing, spontaneous and often
hard talking of the Latin speaks to sand creek very. According
to its woman Xandra, he has taken this quality of they over.
Means its email contacts and together works with the American
artist ares Joan Fabian (San Antonio Texas) and are in the state
New York living friend Frenz Kuijpers holds sand creek self currently
very busy with the American popcultuur that him awful speaks
to. Its fascination for the icon Elvis Presley comes work also
vague on different manners in the vague cartoon achtige from
sand creek back. Neat as the colors that in war are on its cloths,
stand the figures also vague line straighten against over each
other. Sometimes most place he different styles next to each
other, then again he holds the calm and To the Point. Just as
its manner of vague round medical reasons live sit full against
contrary present, are also the cloths of the artist this. From
its birth, Pieter a bent backs bone, that just as its two years
to make ago come up skin and bone illness Psoriasis many with
its mind state, has. It hangs often of its pain finished how
he a work makes. The sun does him mostly very good, but in the
Netherlands is that often far to seek. Sand creek know here well
with to go, its creed has been forgotten then also "By art
I my sorrow, but also the dishes.