Our Off Road exhibition starts next week and we are looking forward to installing on Monday. Here is Gina Kalabishiss offering: Lost, Found, Romance Love as Landscape “They are like the visions of the imagination or the brilliant landscapes of a dream, forms and colour of the brightest array fleet before us William Gilpin, when remarking on the image as seen through the Claude Glass Remarks on forest scenery and other woodland views” 1834. The pocket sized convex black mirror used by artists and travellers in the 18th century inspired these drawings of ‘Lost’ ‘Found’ and ‘Romance’. The Claude Glass was a tool through which one looked out upon the world. An artist would turn their back on the scene and by holding the mirror the reflected landscape would in turn, form the image as the basis of their painting. The “Lost” and “Romance” drawings augment and distort the sea and landscape respectively, much like the Claude Glass, as a vision of love that reveals fears, apprehension, loneliness, elation, sensual rapture and the like. More: flg.au/exhibition/road
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 03:38:29 +0000
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