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Monday 4 deceMber 2017
Tonight:

Ateliers ‘89 to Host Artists from Buena Bista Institute

About PJ Bruyniks
“As a child I often played
with all kinds of materials to
build temporary construc-
tions. But when I ‘discov-
ered’ painting I thought
I found my real interest. I
wanted to learn how to
paint as well as I could, so I
studied techniques to mas-
ter it myself.
ORANJESTAD - Tonight, including PJ Bruyniks, who When I was nineteen I had
Monday, December 4 at was a teacher at Ateliers my first exhibitions and I felt
8pm, Ateliers ‘89 Academia ‘89, as well as Mural Artist that my future was to be a
di Bellas Artes Aruba will Arnar Asgeirsson. These art- painter.
host artists from the Buena ists will give a video presen- In my late twenties the
Bista Institute in Curacao. tation about their work in (side-) jobs in combination
the Black Box at Ateliers ‘89 with painting took more
The night will introduce to tonight at 8pm. The event time and for years making
the art-loving public the promises to be very inter- was on the back burner. So
artists working at Buena esting. early in my forties I decided
Bista Institute in Curacao, again to be a painter. I be-
came a member of an art-

ist collective, initiated and academy I realized that
organized art events and making sculptural installa-
started to explore other art tions is what challenge me
disciplines. most. And which subjects
This really took off when I fascinate me to start mak-
entered the Gerrit Rietveld ing things.
Academy Amsterdam Hol- Now I know that I am not
land and started to work a painter or sculptor but a
with all different kinds of constructor of things, just
materials. like I started as a child.”
During the years at the -Obra PJ Bruyniks. q