The Romantic Landscape Now

The nine artists in this exhibition refer explicitly or implicitly to a romantic vision of the landscape, dating back from 19th century Europe and North America. The romantic style and composition strategies have led contemporary images to the same theatricality and the same exalted temperament as 19th century romantics. The revival of this style gives the artists a fictitious impression of camaraderie with the Romantics. In the works presented for this exhibition, it is possible to find some suspicions of this irony or parody, but always through the emotional and the sublime … As visitors, we are sometimes attacked, sometimes seduced by the works of these artists.

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This traveling exhibition organized by the Artspace Artist Center (Peterborough, Ontario) is funded by the Cultural Initiatives Program of the Department of Communications of the Government of Canada.