Idyll

Idyll

• Hatje Cantz

ISBN-10: 3775719431 · ISBN-13: 978‑3775719438

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Can today’s paintings or installations be idyllic, suggesting a perfect world? What does it mean if they do? An idyll, which must always be read as a contrast to actual circumstances, is more than just a deceptive image. Does it perhaps have a regulating, or even normative, character? This publication presents a selection of works, divided into four sections focusing on the landscape, urban, private, and utopian variants of the idyll, which explore the issues surrounding its timeliness and present radicalization. There is always something more hidden in the individual works than a fleeting glance might first suggest to suppose. For instance, the clear, comic-like landscape “paintings” by Rowena Dring are actually cunningly sewn together out of small, monotone pieces of fabric, which dissolve the image into countless flecks of color as soon as the viewer looks more closely.

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