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Smoke and Mirrors: Landscapes from the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art Collection
Smoke and Mirrors draws on artworks from Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art’s collection in a group show exploring contemporary landscapes through photography, painting, sculpture, film, digitally generated artwork and drawing.
The exhibition features artwork by 15 contemporary artists and photographers who challenge our understanding of landscape through digitally rendered and manipulated imagery, artificial immersive environments, and imaginative fictional worlds.
For generations landscape photographers have sought to capture the beauty and authenticity of the natural world devoid of human interference. Landscape photography has also played an important role in preserving natural environments and raising awareness of environmental concerns. However, today, nearly every landform has been impacted by human interaction, and this continues to shift our understanding of landscape. Indeed, even landscape photography has played its role in turning sites of natural beauty into tourist destinations.
The artworks on display in Smoke and Mirrors push the envelope even further creating, manipulating and reimaging landscapes exposing the artist as creator and questioning the authenticity of any pictorial landscape in the digital age. Within the exhibition lo-fi mobile phone images are turned into monumental, painterly northern landscapes, fictional cityscapes are populated with capitalist robots and mythical creatures. Crater Lake in Oregon, USA is turned into a monumental data portrait derived from the lake’s GPS coordinates, a desert landscape is reimagined as an environmentally altered crystallised terrain, and artificially constructed battlefields are used for armed training and leisure.
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Smoke and Mirrors draws on artworks from Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art’s collection in a group show exploring contemporary landscapes through photography, painting, sculpture, film, digitally generated artwork and drawing.
The exhibition features artwork by 15 contemporary artists and photographers who challenge our understanding of landscape through digitally rendered and manipulated imagery, artificial immersive environments, and imaginative fictional worlds.
For generations landscape photographers have sought to capture the beauty and authenticity of the natural world devoid of human interference. Landscape photography has also played an important role in preserving natural environments and raising awareness of environmental concerns. However, today, nearly every landform has been impacted by human interaction, and this continues to shift our understanding of landscape. Indeed, even landscape photography has played its role in turning sites of natural beauty into tourist destinations.
The artworks on display in Smoke and Mirrors push the envelope even further creating, manipulating and reimaging landscapes exposing the artist as creator and questioning the authenticity of any pictorial landscape in the digital age. Within the exhibition lo-fi mobile phone images are turned into monumental, painterly northern landscapes, fictional cityscapes are populated with capitalist robots and mythical creatures. Crater Lake in Oregon, USA is turned into a monumental data portrait derived from the lake’s GPS coordinates, a desert landscape is reimagined as an environmentally altered crystallised terrain, and artificially constructed battlefields are used for armed training and leisure.
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