National Gallery Exhibition: "the artist's feeling is His law" - Caspar David Friedrich , 2022
MDF board, timber, acrylic paint, gaffer tape, found oil paintings, nails, wire

This work is an expression of my disdain and distaste for romanticist artwork and artists as expressed through the destruction of an art gallery. The work is a display of physical destruction with a metaphorical meaning, representing the removal and subversion of classical artistry and the deification of the natural world, with a specific contempt for the ideological “framing” of nature. My initial want to create my own paintings developed into the use of actual historical oil paintings, and their total destruction a response to the sustained focus on preservation and idolisation of a world and time period which I fundamentally disagree with.

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