The Landscape: From the Arcadia to the urban

gallery rosenfeld is proud to present its second exhibition dedicated to the landscape, titled ‘The Landscape - From Arcadia to the Urban’. The exhibition will reflect on how the seventeenth and eighteenth century vi- sion of a perfect idyllic natural world radically altered with the advent of the industrial revolution and move of people from the countryside to the cities was reflected in changing attitudes to what constituted a landscape. The exhibition will feature seven artists: Inna Artemova, Araminta Blue, Armin Boehm, Piero Pizzi Cannella, Lu Chao, Leonardo Drew, Levi van Veluw and Bogdan Vladuta. In addition, we shall be exhibiting two old masters one of which encapsulates an idea of ‘Arcadia’, whilst the other illustrates a very different idea of a pure landscape.

The Chinese artist Lu Chao’s painting of a huge tree presents what appears to be a purely nature filled view. However, on closer inspection, one can see a host of small buildings and many little people swarming around the area surrounding the base of the tree as if the tree with its majestic size appears like a god-like figure overseeing his universe.

The Dutch artist Levi van Veluw will be exhibiting two paintings; a very large futuristic landscape vividly drawn in charcoal and a much smaller work in colour which represents the construction of a rose window for a cathedral.