The World Behind The World: A Benefit Exhibition For Climate Change
1969 Gallery is pleased to present World Beyond World, curated by Alex Abedine. This group exhibition explores and celebrates visual impressions of the natural world. Spanning 38 years, it brings together 20 international artists whose investigations of color, form, and style elucidate the ongoing legacy of landscape painting.
Rather than treating landscape as a fixed category, the artists in this exhibition approach it as something to be challenged, often moving beyond what is directly observable to rendering the sensation an environment arouses. Guided by figures like Helen Frankenthaler, who have historically captured what we most often take for granted and in a way that escapes language, the exhibition leans towards ambiguity, abstraction, and expression, over realism.
Translating something as simple as shifting light and the stirring breeze 鈥� or the irreconcilable sense of scale at the edge of an expansive abyss, the subjects addressed range from the microscopic to the telescopic. From the vignettes of life brimming within Eric Oglander鈥檚 Resurrection Jars, a new sculptural aquarium series presented here for the first time, to the abstract color progression of a California sunset by Norman Zammitt, the exhibition crosses earthly realities into the more metaphysical.
Many of the paintings defy empirical observation. Depictions of a figure at the precipice of reality conveyed in Eiko Gr枚schl鈥檚 Home Walking and Erna Mist P茅tursd贸ttir鈥檚 Cloud City pay homage to the romance of Caspar David Friedrich鈥檚 Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog. Meanwhile, unruly, vibrant and unpredictable impressions of landscape appear nearby, as in the work of Jacob Littlejohn and Caro Niederer鈥檚 Br眉lisau. As in a painting by Ilse D'Hollander that appears to capture a glimpsed town viewed from the window of a speeding train, the natural world is rendered as a fleeting impression, both familiar and elusive.
World Beyond World is an exhibition characterized by multiplicity. While some of the artists in this show use established conventions of landscape, others seek out and create new forms of visualizing the natural world. Opting for ambiguity and abstraction over empirical observation or hyper-realism, each artist鈥檚 work exemplifies reverence for a subject that remains at the mercy of current and future generations.
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1969 Gallery is pleased to present World Beyond World, curated by Alex Abedine. This group exhibition explores and celebrates visual impressions of the natural world. Spanning 38 years, it brings together 20 international artists whose investigations of color, form, and style elucidate the ongoing legacy of landscape painting.
Rather than treating landscape as a fixed category, the artists in this exhibition approach it as something to be challenged, often moving beyond what is directly observable to rendering the sensation an environment arouses. Guided by figures like Helen Frankenthaler, who have historically captured what we most often take for granted and in a way that escapes language, the exhibition leans towards ambiguity, abstraction, and expression, over realism.
Translating something as simple as shifting light and the stirring breeze 鈥� or the irreconcilable sense of scale at the edge of an expansive abyss, the subjects addressed range from the microscopic to the telescopic. From the vignettes of life brimming within Eric Oglander鈥檚 Resurrection Jars, a new sculptural aquarium series presented here for the first time, to the abstract color progression of a California sunset by Norman Zammitt, the exhibition crosses earthly realities into the more metaphysical.
Many of the paintings defy empirical observation. Depictions of a figure at the precipice of reality conveyed in Eiko Gr枚schl鈥檚 Home Walking and Erna Mist P茅tursd贸ttir鈥檚 Cloud City pay homage to the romance of Caspar David Friedrich鈥檚 Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog. Meanwhile, unruly, vibrant and unpredictable impressions of landscape appear nearby, as in the work of Jacob Littlejohn and Caro Niederer鈥檚 Br眉lisau. As in a painting by Ilse D'Hollander that appears to capture a glimpsed town viewed from the window of a speeding train, the natural world is rendered as a fleeting impression, both familiar and elusive.
World Beyond World is an exhibition characterized by multiplicity. While some of the artists in this show use established conventions of landscape, others seek out and create new forms of visualizing the natural world. Opting for ambiguity and abstraction over empirical observation or hyper-realism, each artist鈥檚 work exemplifies reverence for a subject that remains at the mercy of current and future generations.
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