ARTISTS: Marti Cormand
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Marti Cormand
Marti Cormand operates within the systems of traditional landscape and Abstraction. Qualities of transparency, density, light, shadows and extreme precision in the manner of the Dutch School of Painting are juxtaposed with references to the technologies of image reproduction.
Cormand's paintings introduce a world in which the artificial infiltrates the natural. Candy-colored shapes resembling books, shipping containers, and otherworldly monoliths morph into unfamiliar puddles and geometric abstractions as they become scars upon the forest and industrial wastelands in which they proliferate. The foreign structures follow the rhythm of the landscapes, corrupting and transforming them. The anonymous modules evoke science fiction architecture, cellular configurations and offer a concentration of information without the possibility to access it.