At the Heong Gallery in Downing College, works by Edvard Munch, Paul Nash and Ai Weiwei explore landscape shaped by memory and imagination
Top image by Ai Weiwei Studio, courtesy Lisson Gallery
Open until 8 February, new exhibition A Gap in the Clouds at the Heong Gallery in Downing College explores how modern and contemporary artists use landscape to navigate the relationship between our mental lives and the world around us.
Neither distant views nor simple reflections of the mind, the works in the exhibition – curated by Elisa Schaar and Adina Drinceanu – treat landscape as an active, imaginative space where inner and outer worlds meet, reflect and reshape each other.
Featuring such artists as Edvard Munch, Paul Nash (pictured left) and Ai Weiwei (whose Wheat Field with Crows sees drones replace the birds in van Gogh’s pastoral scene recreated from Lego), the works span a wide range of media, geographies and perspectives, engaging with different kinds of landscape: figurative and abstract; real, imagined and remembered; welcoming or alienating. Admission is free.