Landscape
About this artwork
In 2007, the National Galleries of Scotland commissioned Reisch to create a series of works to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Scottish engineer, Thomas Telford. Reisch responded to Telford’s dramatic intervention in the Highland landscape with an equally spectacular transformation of his own. Using the latest modelling software, he produced views of nature artificially generated on the computer. His ‘Scottish’ landscapes are at once recognisable and fictitious, a vague semblance of both art and nature.
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title:Landscape
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accession number:PGP 382.2
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materials:Digital Chromogenic print / diasec / aluminium mounted
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date created:2007
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measurements:135.00 x 195.00 cm
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credit line:Commissioned 2007
Michael Reisch
Michael Reisch
Reisch studied Photography and Sculpture at ‘Gerrite Rietveld Academie’, Amsterdam, from 1986-1991. This was followed by an influential year studying under photographer Bernd Becher at the ‘Kunstakademie’, Düsseldorf. Reisch’s photographic images challenge the very basis of photography: the idea that the medium somehow confirms the shape of the world. At…