The Imagine Arts Festival presents Earthbound by Pascal Ungerer Exhibition from 13 Oct - 27 November at the GOMA Gallery.
As an artist, Pascal is interested in peoples connection to place and land and the wider perception of the natural or built environment and the interrelationship between these two contrasting spaces.
His most recent painting work looks at liminal landscapes on the margins of human habitation, places that are temporal with a cyclical flux between abandonment and habitation.
Pascal says he is often drawn to unusual structures or topographies as well as places that have storied, hidden or layered histories.
‘For me, many of these places represent a kind of ‘otherness’ in a sometimes bleak and foreboding environment. Most of my paintings are fictional landscapes where I amalgamate different places and ideas into a metaphorical space to reflect upon wider socio-geographic issues, but my paintings are also intrinsically linked to the places and stories that have inspired them.’
This exhibition, Earthbound will showcase some exciting new work by Ungerer in a show that brings together many of Pascal’s interests, in pensive, foreboding and empty landscapes as well as abandoned industrial infrastructure, which he says is ‘emblematic of an architecture of the periphery because of its obsolescence, marginality and alterity. ‘
29 янв 2023
