For a long time, I avoided squared canvases. Perhaps this hesitation lies in the format’s uncertainty between portrait and landscape format.
Therefore, I worked with the motif of an alley of cypress trees, lined up on two horizontal A5 sheets, which together clearly exceeded the Cinemascope. The format could be extended in length by taping further sheets together. This recalls the sideways view from a moving car, where an unending strip of landscape passes by, framed by the window.
This continuity can be staggered on canvas, which eventually led me to the squares shown here – squares that are in fact none, but only pretend to be.
The landscapes on display are models of an artificial grammar. Their picturesque elements are shaped and arranged in a way to help the fake squares approximate a real square.
58x55cm
oil on linen
55x55cm
oil on linen
58x55cm
oil on linen
60x57cm
oil on linen
58x56cm
oil on linen