Landscape

Antas Axel

A large video projection of a fleeting landscape. With a glimmer of the Romantic sublime that appears throughout the history of mountain painting, Landscape was shot in a remote part of the Pyrenees, on the borders between France and Spain. There is a sense of a threshold between dreaming and waking up, between vision and the presence of an equally strong obstacle to vision, as the early morning mist which almost totally veils the mountain landscape appears to lift, but then only drifts further and further across the frame. The work is a meditation on the fragility and beauty of a moment.

Production Year
2007
Duration
00:10:21
Tyyppi
Asiasana
Original Title
Maisema
Finnish Title
Maisema
English Title
Landscape
Production Countries
Spain,United Kingdom
Dialogue
No
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
No
Cast
Axel Antas (Author)
Press Photos
Axel Antas is a multi-disciplinary artist from Finland who lives and works in London. He graduated from Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2000. In his works, Antas uses a combination of photography, site-specific installation, drawing and film, and he explores the awkwardness and disharmony of man’s failure to connect with his surroundings. Antas is best known for his use of man-made clouds – the attempt to momentarily mimic nature in the photographic series Interventions (2005-06).