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Maria Lalić: Landscape Paintings (solo exhibition)

The experience of landscape was a significant stimulus for non-figurative painting in the 20th Century. These works, made after extensive museum study, explore a means of invigorating this practice.The ʻLandscape Paintingsʼ are works built on artistsʼ oil colours with names referring to places: Raw Umber, Burnt Sienna, Paris Blue, Venetian Red. In each painting one of these colours is juxtaposed with a paint made from the earth collected from the site of an existing landscape painting and ground into a ʻstudio-madeʼ paint.

These are two-panel paintings made the specific size of extant works by other artists, which include the place name in the title and which depict a landscape related to the name of the oil colour. For example, an early work included in this show was titled ʻSevres Blue Landscape Painting. 2004 (les Chemin de Sevres. Corot. c.1855-65)’. Landscape paintings by many historical artists have been researched in museums across Europe, works identified, details collected, including specifically: author, title (place) and size. In each case where a work is planned, the site depicted is visited and earth collected. Information is collected together: details of artist, title, size, reproduction of the historic landscape, map locating earth source, photographs of the site and the landscape of the collection point.

Supported by a catalogue, with text by Dr Michael Fehr, Director of the Institut fur Kunst in Kontext, Universitat fur Kunste, Berlin (48pps. 16 colour reproductions. 9 works illustrated),Published by Galerie Renate Bender 2012. In relation to Lalićʼs work in general, Fehr makes reference to the work of Joseph Albers, to Marcia Hafif ʻbeginning againʼ, and to herman de vries and Robert Smithson. The works also reference Carl Andre and Robert Ryman. The initial research was funded by AHRC. Lalić lectured on these and other works at the Munich Academy, February 2013.