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Panorama Works 1977- present

Since 1994 Peter Jansen and his wife Louise are travelling almost non stop through the world.
Once in a while they settle down in different countries, like modern nomads. During these travels he creates his panoramic works.
In abandoned deserts, from the roof of a hotel or on a mountain top. Or in a flat Dutch polder-land.

Peter Jansen created his first panoramic work in 1977 on Route 66 in Amarillo, Texas.
The subject was the Cadillac Range of a collective of American artists called the Ant Farm:
10 Cadillacs in a wheat field (Peter has added three more), ranging from a 1949 Club Coupe to a 1963 Sedan.
The second, in 1978, was a quintuple panoramic piece of the sky between Rue Benoit and Rue de Rennes in Paris.
Two years later, again in Paris, his first so called 'photo-painting' was made: a view from the Paris Hilton.
More of these panoramic compositions followed. In a way they are characterized by a technique that
resembles 'painting with photo prints'. Every single print might be seen as a brush stroke.
Looking in detail at these works one might observe several layers of attention: the choice and concept of the subject,
the affect of color, the position of the viewer, the sometimes iconic subjects, his varied concentration during
the pace of time while creating the sometimes 30 or more 'brush strokes'. But always resulting in unexpected forms.
From strait lines to strange curves, a scattered field of almost unintentionally grouped pictures or carefully planned results.



 

'Cadillac Range, Amarillo Texas'  (80 x 20) Photo assemblage, 1977 (click here to emlarge)

  'Sky between Rue Benoit and Rue de Rennes, Paris' (50 x 20 cm) photo assemblage, 1978      (click here to enlarge)

  'Haarlemmerdijk close to Nieuw Vennep, The Netherlands', (64x14 cm) 7 polaroid prints, 1981  click here to enlarge)

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'12 x 100 km Nullarbor, Australia' (max 240 x 15 cm), digital print, 2002   (click here to enlarge)

  'Queens Juliana's death, The Hague' (max 60 x 35 cm), digital print,  2004   (click here to enlarge)

'The Namib Desert' (max 500 x 100cm), digital print, 2005  (click here to enlarge)

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'Cape of Good Hope, South Africa' (max 35 x 80 cm), digital print, 2004   (click here to enlarge)

'Namibia, Fish River Canon' (max 500 x 160cm), digital print, 2005   (click here to enlarge)

'Ethiopia, Bend in the Omo River' (max 200 x 80cm), digital print, 2005   (click here to enlarge)

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'Zambia, Victoria Falls' (max 200 x 80cm), digital print, 2006   (click here to enlarge)

 'Bend in the Zambezi River, Zimbabwe, 2006 (max 400 x 180), 43 digital prints     (click here to enlarge)

'View from the Cairo Ramses Hilton', (max 100 x 35) photo assemblage, 2000   (click here to enlarge)

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'View from the Dahab Hilton' (max 210 x 10cm), digital print, 2001 (click here to enlarge)

 'View from the New York Hilton to E 53rd Street '  (max 100 x 65 cm) photo assemblage, 1982   (click here to enlarge)

                  'View from the Eilat Hilton', (max 120 x 15) photo assemblage, 2001   (click here to enlarge)

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