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Mariele Neudecker references both real and fictional environments in her work, which is concerned with exploring the territory between perception and representation. She makes liberal use of the Northern European Romantic tradition, particularly in the series of vitrines containing three-dimensional images of landscape. These are immediately recognisable versions of pre-existing representations, generally Caspar David Friedrich, in which even the atmospheric effects of the paintings are mimicked by adding chemical solutions to the water filled tanks. The promise of the sublime is however negated by the visible artifice of the image.
Landscape, The British Council 2000
- Accession Number P6959
- Dimensions HEIGHT 177 CM
- Media GLASS, WATER, ACRYLIC MEDIUM, FIBREGLASS, CELLULOSE
Glossary
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Landscape
Landscape is one of the principle genres of Western art. In early paintings the landscape was a backdrop for the composition, but in the late 17th Century the appreciation of nature for its own sake began with the French and Dutch painters (from whom the term derived). Their treatment of the landscape differed: the French tried to evoke the classical landscape of ancient Greece and Rome in a highly stylised and artificial manner; the Dutch tried to paint the surrounding fields, woods and plains in a more realistic way. As a genre, landscape grew increasing popular, and by the 19th Century had moved away from a classical rendition to a more realistic view of the natural world. Two of the greatest British landscape artists of that time were John Constable and JMW Turner, whose works can be seen in the Tate collection (www.tate.org.uk). There can be no doubt that the evolution of landscape painting played a decisive role in the development of Modernism, culminating in the work of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists . Since then its demise has often been predicted and with the rise of abstraction, landscape painting was thought to have degenerated into an amateur pursuit. However, landscape persisted in some form into high abstraction, and has been a recurrent a theme in most of the significant tendencies of the 20th Century. Now manifest in many media, landscape no longer addresses solely the depiction of topography, but encompasses issues of social, environmental and political concern.
Past exhibitions
FOREST
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2005
- UK, York, York City Art Gallery
- Wales, Newton, Oriel 31 - Davies Memorial Gallery
- UK, Nottingham, Castle Museum And Art Gallery
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2004
- UK, Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton Art Gallery
ART+ MOUNTAINS: CONQUISTADORS OF THE USELESS
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2002
- UK, London, The Alpine Club
LANDSCAPE
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2002
- Slovenia, Ljubljana, Moderna Galerija
- Belgium, Brussels, La Botanique Centre Culturel De La Communate Francaise Wallonie-Bruxelles
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2001
- Brazil, Curitiba, Casa Andrade Muricy
- Brazil, Sao Paulo, Tomi Ohtake Foundation
- Brazil, Rio De Janeiro, Museu De Arte Moderna
- Bulgaria, Sofia, Sofia City Art Gallery
- France, Paris, Espace Elektra
- Spain, Madrid, Centro Cultural Del Conde Duque
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2000
- Italy, Rome, Galleria Nazionale D'arte Moderna
- Russia, St Peter And Paul Fortress
- Russia, Moscow, House Of Artists
- Germany, Weimar, ACC Gallery
