Luca Korodi: Happy Hunting Grounds
The Utopian landscape
Luca Korodi is a painter of timelessness. So far, her works have depicted gardens and forests in the Far East, Mediterranean landscapes rich in cypresses and olive-trees, as well as the English Park. Her compositions represented the part-whole relationship in various collages. She painted details of the forest based on memory and feelings, virtually “zooming in” to the landscape to study its details.
In her most recent series she turns away from the forest and focuses on the glade behind. Space is widened and extended, letting the eyes scan the horizon without hindrance. In her latest series, “The Happy Hunting Grounds”, she sieves a Persian rug motif covering the entire surface of the base colour. She paints the landscape on this “all over” pattern used as a second layer, from under which the decorative motifs emerge. The marks made by the thick brush and the roller, together with the mixed layers give the landscapes a surreal, dreamlike feeling.
The exhibition also features works made of junk materials to represent the metaphorical relationship of the contrast between man-made and natural materials. The reflective surface on the pictures refers to the philosophical doctrine of knowledge and the problem of relative reality. In medieval and renaissance art, the mirror was the symbol of wisdom and virtue.