• Heribert C Ottersbach Arkadia Block

Heribert C Ottersbach Arkadia Block

This catalog presents for the first time Heribert C Ottersbach's new works complex, the recently completed Arkadia Block. With this extensive cycle, the artist picks up the thread of his Pastorale pictures and takes it a step further. While in the earlier images he referenced the tradition of the idyllic motif in art, in Arkadia Block he explores the breach between nature and modern civilization: in 20 works arranged into a rigorously organized tableau, the landscape evolves into a cityscape. This Arkadia Block is supplemented with large-format ink drawings. By fragmenting some of the images using horizontal and vertical "pictorial interferences," and by reducing the range of colors, Ottersbach emphasizes the distanced relationship people have today to both nature and to urban architecture: Arcadia (and hence the ideal state of happiness) remains a figment of the artistic-poetic imagination.

Hardcover 30 x 24,8 cm 120 pages 70 color illustrations English, German Available ISBN 978-3-86828-048-7 2008

Artist:

Heribert C. Ottersbach

Editor:

Hubertus Gaßner, Petra Roettig

Texts:

Hubertus Gaßner, Petra Roettig

Exhibitions

Hamburger Kunsthalle
28.11.2008 – 15.02.2009

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