Daniel Chust Peters

Daniel Chust Peters is a contemporary Brazilian artist, born in São Paulo in 1965.

Daniel Chust Peters' Art Style

Daniel Chust Peters has refined a methodology centered around a singular concept: reimagining the traditional artist's studio. This approach involves utilizing various materials, techniques, and disciplines to transform the private sphere into a public one, thereby converting art objects into inhabitable entities.

Since 1990, the artist has obsessively and systematically reproduced his studios in the form of small-scale models of various sizes, ranging from handheld to life-sized. This ongoing activity reflects a cycle of creation where the artist exclusively produces objects that replicate the space in which he operates. This process sets the stage for a mise en abyme, with all the associated risks and uncertainties it entails.

Daniel Chust Peters acknowledges the folly of perpetually repeating the same process and rigidly defining a methodology as follows: 

This cyclical system, though seemingly absurd, liberates the artist from the burden of constantly pondering "what to do?" and the constraint of selecting a new subject for each artwork. He employs this verbal maxim, akin to a rule of the game, as a driving force for his practice. By articulating it, he unlocks the potentials of his work. Chust Peters commits himself to exploring these potentials by presenting numerous formulations, with each artwork representing a tangible possibility.