Both landscapes are viewed from the point of view of a walker about to see something spectacular. The white path snaking around the trees is like a trailway of light, leading to the dawn sky that lifts up the horizon. In another work, also untitled by the artist, known as Craggy Mountains with Meandering White Path, spindly green and gold trees are poised between black cliffs. The water’s surface froths with movement. In one work, untitled but known as View of Sea Through Trees, ominous foliage leans across an inlet streaming in from the sea. Forest and rock formations are pressed claustrophobically against the foreground, obscuring watery horizons from view. The selections of Walter’s work chosen for this exhibit are mainly landscapes, often with huge, overwhelming skies and muted colors. This experience led to the Frank Walter exhibit currently on display at David Zwirner’s uptown gallery in New York, curated by Als. Oil on single-ply cardboard David ZwirnerĪfter the Biennale, Als met up with the English dealer from David Zwirner gallery and told him and everyone he knew about what he had seen in the West Indian Pavilion. Walter, he said, wants nature to be a part of us. At the exhibition’s opening, Als spoke on the lack of sentimentality and softness in Walter’s landscapes. “I left the exhibition spiritually taken as much as I was visually,” he told Observer. “He was trying to find a way to not only show us what he had seen, but also, he was very interested in how does the human, how does the vision or visionary equal the landscape?”Īls, whose family comes from Barbados, was immediately struck by Walter’s multiplicity of vision. “He wasn’t imposing the human form on the landscape,” Als told Observer. Als found Walter’s work immediately arresting. It was hot and the only worker in the gallery was Barbara Paca, an art historian who discovered Walter in Antigua, and authored the only existing book on the artist. In 2017, Hilton Als, theater critic for The New Yorker, visited the West Indian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and first saw works by the Antiguan artist, Frank Walter. One in which you look at nature but nature also looks at you. Yet, there is another kind of landscape that has traveled alongside this dominant strain. In the vast majority of western landscape paintings, the viewer looks at nature as an object to be consumed.
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