Robert Bordo, Andreas Eriksson, Marina Rheingantz, Christine Safa, Anh Trần
Some Landscapes
10 Mar – 4 May 2023
The Upstairs at 39 Walker

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Some Landscapes, Installation view, Bortolami, New York, NY, 2023

Some Landscapes brings together works by a group of five international artists. The exhibition includes new paintings by Robert Bordo, Andreas Eriksson, Marina Rheingantz, Christine Safa, and Anh Trân.

The natural world, in its blending of the material and immaterial, was an early and rich source for abstraction. Helen Frankenthaler commented on nature’s instinctive transformation into painting: “Anything that has beauty and provides order (rather than chaos or shock value) can be resolved in a picture (as in nature) and gives pleasure – a sense of rightness, as in being one in nature.” Culling from the long tradition of abstract landscape painting, shaped and morphed by a variety of geographies and the tendencies they reveal, the artists in this exhibition each push the constraints of an ever changing and continuously generative genre.

Works

Installation view of displayed artwork titled ghosted

ghosted, 2018

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Broker's Tip

Broker's Tip, 2017

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Lovland

Lovland, 2022

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Sibipiruna

Sibipiruna, 2023

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Auprès de, (ciel bleu)

Auprès de, (ciel bleu), 2022

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Cyprès jaunes

Cyprès jaunes, 2022

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Venise (Lido)

Venise (Lido), 2023

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Cala Mondragó (Santanyí)

Cala Mondragó (Santanyí), 2023

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Visage senti, Visage sentant

Visage senti, Visage sentant, 2022

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Pins bleus, Corfou depuis Paxos

Pins bleus, Corfou depuis Paxos, 2023

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Searching the sky for dreams (barbed-wire lanes)

Searching the sky for dreams (barbed-wire lanes), 2023

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Untitled

Untitled, 2023