American artist Robert Zehnder is making a return to C L E A R I N G for Resurrection, his newest solo exhibition, now on view via April 12. On this surreal suite of oil work, Zehnder unpacks the thought transformation, fusing historic custom and digital landscapes to assemble a brand new mythology.
Whereas the landscapes of Resurrection take clear cues from American Regionalism, they ditch nostalgia in favor of one thing extra slippery. Somewhat than mere locations, these near-melting scenes function as states of thoughts – metaphors for the way we devour, assemble and deconstruct that means. The land itself appears to breathe, shifting between crisp realism and dreamlike abstraction, as if in a perpetual state of flux.
Taking part in on the bodily and historic, the artist additionally brings digital escapism into the combination. In doing so, the viewers turns into immersed in a gaming map of Zehnder’s personal making – a world “formed by constructed environments, boundless of their phantasm but ruled by hidden parameters,” the gallery notes.
“His works exist in a state of slippage, the place that means isn’t mounted however constantly evolving. This exhibition invitations viewers to contemplate the landscapes –each literal and figurative – that form their very own experiences and to query whether or not resurrection is a return to one thing misplaced or the creation of one thing fully new.”
