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12 METERS OF LANDSCAPES + RUINS

No matter how often we may have heard these words before, even after a thousand repetitions their evocative power still lingers in our minds, interminably stirring our sense of wonder: "Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success”. This was Ernest Shackleton’s recruitment notice asking for volunteers for the Endurance expedition to Antarctica in 1914. Its language vividly encapsulates everything we may ever wish from journeys of/or exploration: an experience that- even beyond the bounds of geography or physical constraints- activates in us the longing for a challenge at once deeply intimate and shared; a concept of discovery that means questioning our own home port, rather than simply arriving at new destinations.

In 12 Metres of Landscape, Enrique Radigales invites us to set out on a journey that seems at first - by virtue of its sense of proximity and its apparent safety- far removed from Shackleton’s advertisement, and yet nevertheless matches its requirements almost to the letter: a crossing through uncharted territories, ordinary yet also uncanny; a passage that upon completion (if such a thing is ever possible) lands the travellers back in a site that has become unknown, and is much more thrilling and terrifying than their point of departure; a route connecting Radigales’ itinerary with each of his viewers.

In twelve metres of Hahnemühle paper printed in pigmented ink, and covered in acrylic paint, an orography is outlined whose contours evoke a mountain ridge formed by the multitude of seemingly random online images you get when you google the search term “landscape”: 17th Century Dutch paintings; cartographies of (or from) the past, the present, or even the future; clichéd depictions of global tourism; topographies; Renaissance vistas and paintings; pixel-shaped fragments at different resolutions; mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and other natural phenomena; contemporary architectures; woods and meadows; maps of the atmosphere; plus an assortment of photographs one would hardly ever place or recognize under the category of “landscape” at all. 

Ivan lópez Munuera

TECHNICAL INFO

  • Year: 2012
  • Title: 12 meters of landscape + ruins
  • Size: 1000x110x90 cm
  • Tecnic: Acrilic painting and print on Hahnemühle paper 310 g.