Peeters functioned as an important liaison between the Dutch group and the international ‘ZERO artists’ in Germany, Italy and France. ![]() In that same year the Dutch art collective Nulgroep was formed with the goal of conquering ground for a new form of art in a new era and leaving the dark period of the Second World War behind. In 1961 Peeters published the Manifesto against nothing (Manifest tegen niets) with other proponents of the international ZERO movement such as Piero Manzoni, one of the first supporters of his work. lolita-detail highlights the soft abstraction that Peeters’ work conveys, alluding to the feminine in his art, with motives that reverberate throughout the entire show. As in our society, one is not allowed to touch the husband or wife of another, one does not touch a piece of art, and in no case a piece that does not belong to oneself. It invites its spectators to feel the material but at the same time prohibits doing so. ![]() The title of the exhibition lolita-detail is taken from an artwork made out of foam, wood and steel from 1965.
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