Soon the season for hard wind and storms is on its way. This morning however the sea was totally calm outside my window. It mirrored everything around along with the sky.
I recalled the photographic series “Der Wanderer” by Elina Brotherus”, also with the name “The New Painting”, which can give us an idea on the contextual side of the works. Immediately the painter Caspar David Friedrich comes to my mind again.
We see a standing woman looking out over different spectacular landscape settings. The works are self-portraits, although we can only see her back. We look together at the mountains, the hills, and the water - calm and not dramatic as in the Friedrich-paintings.
Time seems to stand still. But we can at the same time sense the differences between day and evening because of the very special light. Especially the pale nuances of blue or orange, creating an atmosphere of stillness and slow movement. Almost as if a film is about to start. It is the beginning of something.
No romantic illusions seem to be in the air. No heroes around to conquer the world.
She owns the place and time for a few minutes, but not for eternity. http://www.elinabrotherus.com/photography/the-new-painting
Another artist turning his back to us when gazing out over the nature is Torbjørn Rødland in his early photographic series “In a Norwegian landscape”. More intimate forest in the photos and also a lake, not the sea. He has brought his plastic bag from the supermarket Rema 1000 as an anachronism or comment on everyday and the sublime. We can also see him turn around towards us in one work, walking out of the scenery and art history.
I remember curating his solo exhibition with these new photographs. During the show a classical portrait photographer came to me in anger saying that Torbjørn Rødland is not able to create art, that an artist would never ever let the portrayed turn his or her back to us. http://rodland.net/lands.html
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