“The shapes of these ‘borrowed landscape’ images, which are then floated on the enlarger - which is why they are floating in black - mean the negative edge is no longer a square or rectangle, they resemble the incidental shapes of windows in either religious or portrait paintings of the mid 15th and early 16th Century, particularly Netherlandish, but also in Italy. I was drawn to these early views of the landscape as seen through the window, but often partly obscured by the central subject, as they were painted before the emergence of landscape as an independent subject for painting in the 17th Century.”
Aliki Braine, 2024
Aliki Braine - Borrowed Landscapes
Benjamin Parsons x Hannah Payne Gallery curated by Rodrigo Orrantia
Private View Tuesday 12 March 6 - 8 pm
Exhibition open 13 - 17 March at Gallery 5, Cromwell Place, London SW7 2JE.
This exhibition, the second solo show with Benjamin Parsons x Hannah Payne gallery, guest curated by Rodrigo Orrantia, focuses on artist and art historian Aliki Braine’s interest in the representation of landscape in western art. Making the most of Cromwell Place’s proximity to the V&A, Braine draws inspiration from a selection of works in the collection, as well as working directly with found facsimile prints of celebrated landscape artists such as Corot, Constable and Jacob van Ruisdael. Through rigorous experimentation with photography and its essential quality as a medium which can ‘borrow’ and reproduce images, the different series which are included in this exhibition examine and subvert the traditional representation of landscape. Using artistic devices that have become synonymous with her work - cutting, punching out, folding and layering - Braine reconfigures her own and appropriated images to create these ‘borrowed landscapes’, inviting us to look at art, but also the world around us in a different way.
Events:
Private View Tuesday 12 March 6 – 8 pm. Drinks served.
From 6.30pm as part of Cromwell Place Tuesday LATES, Aliki Braine. Aliki will provide an introduction to the exhibition with curator, Rodrigo Orrantia.
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Artist Talk + Tour, Thursday 14 March, 12 pm
Join an artist led talk and tour of Borrowed Landscapes with artist and art historian Aliki Braine including a walk across to the V&A to visit historical landscape paintings from the collection that have inspired Aliki’s practice.
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In Conversation, Saturday 16 March, 11 am
Aliki Braine In Conversation with Dr Caroline Molloy, Programme Director Fine Art and Photography – Farnham. Talk isfollowed by a walk to the V&A museum to visit historical landscape paintings from the collection that have inspired Aliki’s practice.
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Image credits:
ALIKI BRAINE, Horizontal Shift (Landscape 1), 2023
Black and white photograph from hole-punched and rearranged negative
86 x 100 cm
Edition 1/3
ALIKI BRAINE, Borrowed Landscape I, 2023
Colour photograph from cut and repositioned negative. Unique Print
21 x 25 cm
Unique Prints (+1A/P)
Enquiries: hannah@theartfive.com
Installation views: Damian Griffiths
