FAINTLY FALLING UPON ALL THE LIVING AND THE DEAD
Dawn Yoxall
Mariele Neudecker
1 October 2016 - Ongoing
In Faintly Falling Upon All the Living and the Dead three life sized trees are transplanted into the gallery space. They allude to the stillness of a forest clearing, without the sound of wind or creaking boughs. Held in suspension, we are able to examine the exquisite detail of the bark and delicate forest floor on our own eye level.
The work of artist Mariele Neudecker is an ongoing exploration of the landscape tradition in art, and the changing representation and reception of nature and landscape. The context of the surrounding forest and Lake District provides a special setting from which to observe the changing meaning of landscape over time.
Neudecker has exhibited widely nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at the IKON Gallery, Birmingham, Tate St Ives, Tate Britain, London, the Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen, as well as in Biennales in Japan, Australia and Singapore. Group exhibitions include MODEL, Galerie Rudolfinum Praha (2015), ANTARCTROPIA at the Antarctic Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2014) and ARCTIC, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (2013).
