- objects arranged to create a series of miniture landscapes - COMPOSITION
- work scaled to the size of the human body and dramatised by your movement around it at foot and eye level.
Ian Kiaer makes carefully
constructed assemblages comprising found objects, architectural models,
paintings and drawings which form poetic narratives. The humble nature of
Kiaer’s materials directly and consciously contrasts with the epic subjects
depicted: a block of polystyrene represents a snow-covered sweep of land; an
upturned plastic waste bin stands for a cliff face. These forms derive from
Kiaer’s research into the idealistic visions of eccentric historical figures,
united in their desire for retreat from the dominant ideologies of their day,
or concerned with reconciling the relationship between man and environment. For Art Now Kiaer brings together both new and existing
works to explore the relationship between the landscape paintings of the
sixteenth-century Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel and the working spaces of the
twentieth-century Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.
I find this guy really confusing.
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