'hinterland' (after Friedrich) Painting

Exploring the work of Romantic Landscape painters, the artist has recreated these as a series of lo-fi maquettes built in the studio. These crude facsimiles are made quickly from polystyrene, cardboard, glue and paint. With every last torn edge, rough surface and crooked joint on display, these models revel in their own fakeness. They act as a playful simulacrum of the original landscape paintings – which themselves are semi-fictions: idealised, meticulously constructed visions of real-world landscapes. Based on Friedrich's 1807 painting 'Dolmen in the Snow' ‘Hinterland’ combines these smaller elements into a coherent whole. At first glance, the painting is recognisable as a traditional landscape, but further scrutiny undermines this reading. A bank of snow comes into focus as sheets of polystyrene; a hazy sky is recognised as a loosely hung sheet; blobs of plasticine reveal themselves beneath branches – quiet acts that interrogate ideas of the spectacular and the sublime. The work is unframed, it has a raw linen edge sealed with a clear primer, with evidence of the primed surface of the painting. It is supplied ready to hand with d-rings and picture wire. Signed and dated on reverse.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:47.2 W x 35.4 H x 1.6 D in

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