Special Exhibitions
MetaScape
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About MetaScape The contemporary landscape is a conflicted space. Suburban sprawl supplants urban expansion. Cities consume wilderness. Virtual experiences replace the authentic and Cyber culture usurps the Real. Cultural divisions erode as territorial identities dissolve. These physical and psychological shifts alter perception and reshape the way we experience time, space and tangible markers of the constructed world.MetaScape takes this condition as its subject, citing the work of Julie Mehretu, Benjamin Edwards, Torben Giehler and Yutaka Sone, to explore how a new generation of artists imagines this complex terrain. While the four do not constitute a singular movement, they do share a collective desire to reconfigure space traditionally defined by the modernist grid and renaissance perspective. Their images diverge radically from the scenes of majestic beauty and terrifying force that defined the landscape genre from the 18th century onward. Yet, like their progenitors, these artists focus impressions of the natural and constructed world through a lens of contemporary experience. Digital technology, mass media, globalization and commodity culture shape each artist's vision: they are adept at translating synthetic data into scenes of breathtaking beauty. Visionary and real, the topographic meditations Edwards, Giehler, Mehretu and Sone have a transcendent quality. They provide awesome and optimistic evidence that the landscape tradition in art has not been diminished by information technology and the digital revolution, but rather enriched by it.
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