Republic of Korea

Hwang Seontae

Korean artist Hwang Seontae makes lightboxes. Carefully crafted from sandblasted glass and discreet LED lamps, they depict contemporary, domestic interiors. These calm and ordered scenes are lit by windows which frame views of natural landscape. In contrast to the colour of the outdoors, these idealized, indoor spaces are monochromatic, formed from graphically-rendered line and flat, grey halftones. This is a rigidly controlled and measured vision of utopia.

United Kingdom

London

Pontone Gallery

Mixed Media

The Space with Sunshine

Chris Rivers

Each ‘Angels are Astronauts’ picture references a particular planet of the solar system, as well as the Sun. The scenes are swirling vortices of turbid colour, allusive to the popularly- perceived characteristics of each subject: for example, Mars, Jupiter and the Sun are hot- hued, Earth watery and Mercury darkly fluid. Small figures in spacesuits tumble through vaporous skeins and veils of paint. These are interstellar landscapes, fantasy worlds, which read as surreal collisions between the sci-fi images of Kubrick’s ‘2001 A Space Odyssey’ and Monet’s lily ponds.

Painting

Angels are Astronauts - Mercury

United States

Malcolm Liepke

Two Jokers

Three Sides of Me

Curves and Folds

Inner Voices

Emerging

In the Dark

Legs

Italy

Matteo Massagrande

La finestra di ida

Riva degli Schiavoni (Venezia)

Pergola

The grapevine in the orchard

"...Here in the garden, sheltered from the wind, 
Where no flower bloomed, all cabbage-beds and overhanging vines."

(excerpt from “La Sœur novice” by François Coppée, 1872)

From: Vincent van Gogh
To: Anthon van Rappard
Location: Nuenen
Date: on or about Sunday 2 March 1884
433 | Br. 1990: 435 | CL: R41

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