
LUC PETERS
Luc Peters (Roermond, 1950) studied at the academies of fine arts in Maastricht and Tilburg, where he learned plastic techniques useful for sculpture. He never wanted to appropriate academic precepts. He seeks a spontaneous and daring process. Luc Peters also did not like the Dutch modernism of the avant-gardes. He created his own style. He went on a quest, like the young people who traveled to Asia in the early 1970s to discover other cultures. As a sculptor, he draws his inspiration both from classical antiquity and from the ready-mades of the Dadaist and conceptual artist Marcel Duchamp. Luc Peters assembles his sculptures with the materials he finds. In his work, objects are reused and given a new identity, a new life. His sculptures, both the horse heads and the “men” and “gods,” have something forgettable or disorienting. Luc Peters sculpts spontaneously. He follows his own path. This fits with his anarchist nature. He is looking for his own way. It absorbs the properties (natural and chemical) of its “raw materials”. Luc Peters' sculptures seem timeless. Do they make the past new or the present new? By bringing together the materials he has collected, Luc Peters changes his destiny to breathe new life into them, transforming his appearance and perception. The sculptor also describes himself as anachronistic and eclectic.