In the Belgian artist Harold Ancart's rich new body of work, he
turns an immersive landscape of trees, mountains, and seas into a
meditation on painting itself. Harold Ancart often paints subjects
that naturally invite contemplation, such as the horizon, clouds,
flowers, flames, and icebergs. His newest body of work captures the
experience of landscape seen in motion or from a distance: trees
blurred while driving past, an inky-black sea seen from a distance,
an evocative Martian mountain range. Recalling Rene Magritte, Egon
Schiele, Gustav Klimt, and Piet Mondrian, who approached this
subject matter in distinct ways, Ancart blurs form and color,
figure and ground, and figuration and abstraction. Reproduced here
in magnificent foldouts, two multipanel canvases situate the viewer
between a mountainscape and a seascape, both monumental in scale.
Ancart segments the seascape with a stark horizon line, dividing
sky and ocean. Like other comparable motifs within the artist's
oeuvre, the vividly colored cloudy sky functions in an
anthropomorphic way, alluding to the endless possibilities and
personalities of organic forms. Including an interview with Bob
Nickas, this catalogue offers insight into Ancart's frank
reflections on painting, writing, nature, and more. The publication
also features a new essay by Laura McLean-Ferris. Taken together,
the works in Harold Ancart: Traveling Light meditate on the
expansive possibilities of painting.
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