Lehmann Maupin is pleased to present the group exhibition Horizon, featuring works by gallery artists Billy Childish, Tracey Emin, Teresita Fernández, Angel Otero, and Juergen Teller opening today, January 15, 2015.
The selection of works feature both traditional and abstracted representations of landscapes depicting various forms of the exterior world as well as our internal or psychological relationship to nature. Like a horizon line, which is not physically tangible and can only be perceived, these artists' constructions of landscape extend beyond representation into the realm of subjective and personal reflections.
Childish's imagery draws inspiration from subjects close to his emotional and physical world, including family and his hometown of Chatham, England, where he continues to live and work today. Frozen Estuary-Off Chatham, 1895 (Version Y) (2012) references a historical photograph of this area combined with his own iconography and personal memories.
Fernández's Horizon (Halo) from 2011 is an installation comprised of small, individual hand-hewn chunks of graphite stretching across the wall in a horizontal line. Each piece features a hand-drawn graphite mark, trailing from its side. From a distance the marks combine to evoke a horizon line, separating two halves of an imagined landscape.Videos