The breakthrough of Pieter de Kok came a few years ago, at about the age at which, according to Camus, every man is responsible for his own face. He attended the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and took a leap into he unknown as a creative artist. His major motivation: to illuminate the often shadowy relationship between the individual and the group. He has just held his first successful exhibition at the leading Amsterdam gallery owned by Robert Malasch.
The exhibition was a milestone in an evolutionary process which has already taken about fifteen years, Pieter de Kok estimates,”The predisposition, the view of the world, in retrospect that has always been there. Yet it was not until I was about thirty-five that I recognised it: I have to do this, I have to take this road”.
