"Have You Seen the Horizon Lately?" Exhibition
Leo Kesting
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Like the Spice presents Have You Seen the Horizon Lately, an exhibition featuring contemporary landscapes and hosted by the always-on-the-cutting-edge Leo Kesting Gallery in the meatpacking district.
Landscape art has historically had more to do with artists and the cultures they live in than with the actual lay of the land. Today, as natural landscapes are further than ever from our day-to-day lives, landscape art is even more tenuously connected to any sense of a natural pristine beauty. Landscapes today are phantasmagoric representations of communities, ecologies, memories and consumer fantasies. Most places we spend our time in are either haphazard mishmashes of the architecture of necessity or environments purposefully designed to encourage our consumption.
The artists in this exhibition combine the fantasy of and longing for a place we belong with a deep understanding of the near impossibility of finding it. Dystopian visions of landscapes in ruins, works depicting the sublime horror of battlefields, fantasy suburban developments with nonsense layouts and abstract memories of what nature was like populate this show. There are also moments of levity. A spaceship presides over a stuntman’s ring of fire in the desert, a duck-human hybrid contemplates nature and we get a peek of Space Mountain as we stroll through Tomorrowland in a technicolored photo-memory.
[Image: Allison Edge "Tomorrowland at Night" (2008) Oil on canvas, 48" x 48"]
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Schedule
from July 17, 2008 to August 03, 2008