The artist
(Source Benezit 1975)
VALENTINER (Peter), painter-sculptor, born in 1941 in Copenhagen.
In the early 1970s, Valentier became known for his use of Camouflage techniques, such as nets, wefts, and “leopard” fabrics commonly used by the military. His goal was to obscure reality and create ambiguity, through the use of camouflage, which drew attention to both the subject matter and the act of observation itself.
He says himself that camouflage is for him an activity that is both playful and subversive. It can even be perceived as asymbolic form of expression. His work is perhaps similar to Christo’s. Always keeping the grid or weft as a starting point, Valentiner then produced more pictorial work from colored prints. Invited to the Paris Biennale in 1971, he received an award, which is now exhibited at the Salon de la Jeune Peinture.
Periods
"I have always liked to assume a somewhat provocative attitude, that of being on the left in a bourgeois house and reactionary in a left-wing house."
Transfer of different frames on the surface of a painting which are a synthesis between collage and take-off
He calls "Hurricane" the black and white shapes that condense into a vortex towards the center of the image.
