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War, though often unseen, surrounds us at every moment. Battleground invites us to look into the connection between war and present life. This is carried out by harnessing the power of painting, believing in the dynamics of space, allowing beauty to be perceived and apprehending distress.
Draped with visual devices exuding aesthetic rhetoric, Battleground delves into the ominous implications of battlefields. Here, the formal elements indicative of war are absent. Instead, large-scale paintings with blithe curves, rude porcelains and fabric swags are brought together in the exhibition. The images distort, exaggerate and embellish objects with imagination, capturing the atmosphere of military conflicts and abstract concepts of borderlands rather than representing specific battlefields. It is the vision of breathtaking natural landscapes that conveys such atmospheres bearing semblance to those of a buffer zone ― a site established through agreements by warring parties after...More
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War, though often unseen, surrounds us at every moment. Battleground invites us to look into the connection between war and present life. This is carried out by harnessing the power of painting, believing in the dynamics of space, allowing beauty to be perceived and apprehending distress.
Draped with visual devices exuding aesthetic rhetoric, Battleground delves into the ominous implications of battlefields. Here, the formal elements indicative of war are absent. Instead, large-scale paintings with blithe curves, rude porcelains and fabric swags are brought together in the exhibition. The images distort, exaggerate and embellish objects with imagination, capturing the atmosphere of military conflicts and abstract concepts of borderlands rather than representing specific battlefields. It is the vision of breathtaking natural landscapes that conveys such atmospheres bearing semblance to those of a buffer zone ― a site established through agreements by warring parties after...More
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