Peter Buggenhout - umleitung
In the organizer's words:
Peter Buggenhout (born in Dendermonde, Belgium, in 1963) is internationally renowned for his sculptures, which he forms from discarded objects and which take shape in space as expansive physical formations. The artist describes his sculptures as "abject things" - as objects that elude the usual cognitive contexts and demand more than just one viewing perspective. In the Waldfrieden Sculpture Park, Peter Buggenhout is showing expansive objects from various groups of works in two of the exhibition halls and in the outdoor area.
The sculptures by Peter Buggenhout, who was born in Dendermonde in Belgium in 1963 and lives and works in Ghent, consist of objects that have been robbed of their original functionality by the loss of use: Waste and artifacts alike form the materials that the artist uses as work materials and from which he assembles his objects. Used plastic sheeting, tarpaulins, textile fabrics, newspapers, scrap metal, fragments of wood or organic substances such as cow stomachs, horse hair and dust become components of his works. Buggenhout creates enormous forms from these leftovers, in which the emergence and decay are inherent in the immediate presence of the material and its rugged forms.
Peter Buggenhout, who turned away from painting around 1990 in order to switch to sculptural forms, has been working for several years in groups of works with different material focuses and overarching titles. The found, the cyclical and the temporality of things are fundamental themes that he formulates in his work groups as varied sculptural inventories. His sculptures have no visual direction; the multi-viewing nature of his works is as essential as the significance of the equivalence and simultaneity of their elements. The discarded is always an important part of the basis of his work.
"The materials I use all have one thing in common: I didn't choose them because I like their shape or appearance. What all the objects I find have in common is that their formal identity does not really point to a meaning. For example, I can use a piece of a chair instead of an old chair in such a way that you don't realize what kind of object it was before. That is the quality of waste, so to speak. Dust also has this quality. All my working materials are "waste", that is, discarded or disgusting ... removed from their original state, having lost their form and meaning."
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