Showroom
Galleryvlog
Exhibition video
Artist interview
Opening: 01st of November 2019 6 – 9 pm
Duration: 02nd November – 20th December 2019
Ending: 20th December 2019 6 – 9 pm
Diffused dim light, the fascinating glow of the Northern Lights and the all-encompassing freezing cold – the winter in Iceland is uncompromising and equally magical. Peter Lang has come to nature in Iceland, banning it in its essence on canvas and paper.
Peter Lang, who was born in the Upper Bavarian town of Holzkirchen and lives today in the Oberpfalz, often went out into the world during his artistic career and repeatedly returned to the Far North. In this single show, the work from Iceland is the centre. In the Icelandic winter, the weather conditions are extreme, the landscape is sparse, and daylight is kept to a minimum. It is precisely this special twilight state and the brittleness of the island that Lang always captures in large format. In the Impressionist tradition, Lang, who studied painting and graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, paints “en plein air”. It always goes out into nature. Here, between glaciers, waterfalls, mountains and vast plains, he can concentrate on the essentials. In his landscape paintings, the artist is not concerned with depicting details. For him, lighting moods, the feeling of space, the horizon and the twilight, which always has a sense of the in between.
The technique is remarkable. Lang’s pictures are dominated by so-called “long pixels”, a horizontal arrangement of the canvas. This grid, which pervades the pictorial space throughout, allows him to convey a feeling of space and emptiness. For this arrangement, Peter Lang uses an aluminium frame with thin strings, which he places on the still damp ground of the picture ground – and all this in the middle of nature. In this radical open-air painting Peter Lang creates images that are bursting with strength and equally sensitive. Abstract landscape painting, serial focus but above all this all-encompassing feeling of vastness seem like a pull directly into the land of geysers.
Text: Julia Schattauer
Detail: Mildes Berglicht, 2017, Öl auf Leinwand, 120 x 190 cm
