Pascal Ungerer’s peripheral landscapes evoke a sense of silence and isolation , writes Margarita Cappock
Pascal Ungerer specialises in contemporary landscape painting that features peripheral landscapes or abandoned places situated on the ‘edgelands’ or margins of human habitation. His aim is to ‘challenge normative perceptions of landscape paintings through the prism of unusual structures and topographies’. The artist’s primary thematic concerns are places that represent ‘otherness’. He is drawn to obsolete or decommissioned post-industrial structures that speak of the relationship between the built environment and natural world. His work explores the conflict that exists at the intersection between the two spaces, when these industrial structures no longer fulfil their prescribed functions. His paintings’ deliberately ambiguous titles, such as Trace Elements (Fig 1), Monolith and Earthbound are elemental but suggestive of transitional spaces.
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