Julius von Bismarck
Landscape Painting (Quarry day)
2021

Archival pigment print on Photo Rag Ultra Smooth; graphite frame
101 x 150 cm
Edition 6 + 2 AP

In his Landscape Painting realised in 2021, Julius von Bismarck creates a picture not of, but in the volcanic landscape he has chosen. He thereby eliminates the dividing line between the artist subject and the object to be painted: instead of creating a distance in order to place the landscape as a miniature within the painting, he enters it, dissolves the distance to his image, attempts to master its size and physically confronts its monumental dimensions in order to finally conquer it. The resulting picture of the landscape, created by this brutal encounter and performed through the body, becomes proof of this struggle with the subject and shifts the topos of an artist's inner struggle with his objects to the exterior.

Video stills, Landscape Painting (Quarry), 2021

About Julius von Bismarck

In his works Julius von Bismarck explores people’s ability to perceive, and he uses the laws of physics to challenge the way we are used to seeing things.

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