Impossible Landscape: In Conversation
Jodie Vicenta, Peter Coffin, and Melanie Carvalho will offer a tour and discussion of the exhibition, The Impossible Landscape.
The Impossible Landscape
November 29, 2006 -- March 4, 2007
Cutting edge multimedia exhibition with by renowned and emerging international artists:
Darren Almond (UK), Rebecca Baron (USA), Melanie Carvalho (UK), Peter Coffin (USA), Tacita Dean (UK), Nir Evronn (Israel), Janice Kerbel (CA), Ian Kiaer (UK).
This exhibition brings together the work of eight artists who in different ways have been thinking about conventions of landscape art and botanical depiction. Each artist complicates the question of what it means to make a landscape image now. In different ways, each artist suggests that traditional modes of depiction are impossible.
‘The Impossible Landscape’ conjures many ideas and many kinds of impossibility. Wide-ranging in their mediums and forms, the works produce diverse responses. Some artists deliberately try to confuse the status of the presented image; others shun traditional depictions yet still manage to produce hauntingly poetic or even humorous work.
The Impossible Landscape is co-curated by Mark Godfrey (UK) and Jodie Vicenta Jacobson (NYC). Mark Godfrey is a Lecturer at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London and has a forthcoming book titled Abstraction and the Holocaust. Jodie Vicenta Jacobson is dually the Curator for The Horticultural Society of New York and an artist working in photography and video.
