Peter Buggenhout (b.1963, lives and works in Ghent, Belgium) is an internationally renowned sculptor who uses discarded materials to create expansive physical forms in space. The artist describes his sculptures as "abject things" — as objects that elude familiar cognitive connections and demand consideration from multiple perspective and vantage points. His enormous works of discarded remnants show creation and decay as inherent in their material presence and rugged form.
Buggenhout’s sculptures are made from things that have been robbed of their original purpose and out of use: detritus and artifacts alike form the matter that the artist uses to assemble his objects. Thrown away plastic foil, tarps, woven fabrics, newspapers, scrap metal, pieces of wood; or organic substances like cow intestines, horsehair and dust all become part of his work.
He will present his large-scale pieces from various groups of work as part of an installation in two exhibition halls and outside at Waldfrieden Sculpture Park.
