Landscape-wood: taming the plant world

Landscape-wood

This exhibition brings together six artists who, each through their own perspective, engage with a foundational element: the vegetal world. It is the dialogue between humans and nature that emerges within the landscape. This landscape, shaped as much by the one who observes and approaches as by the one being observed and approached, suggests the occurrence of an intimate encounter. It reminds us that we are composed of relationships stretching from the sky to the earth, passing through the subterranean world of our roots and the aerial atmosphere of winds that make our heads spin and connect us to the invisible.

Anne Marie Finné composes bucolic scenes through shifting perspectives that invite the gaze to wander. On her scratched carbon papers, the abstract atmosphere of wooded landscapes resurfaces.
Nathalie van de Walle’s prints reveal spaces saturated with urban greenery left to its own devices.
Jipeng Ke focuses on the density of foliage, engaging in a chromatic dialogue with the vegetal realm.
Roby Comblain’s wood prints show how the texture of wood itself becomes a conversational partner.
Guided by fire, Gérald Dederen transforms raw matter into carbonized forms, where voids and hollows pulse with vitality.
Aline Forçain also uses the technique of burnt wood to create landscapes that seem to call for the touch of fingers.

— Simone Schuiten