CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/29/2019

New Romantic Hernan Bas featured in 'Landscape Painting Now'

Hernan Bas's "A Landscape to Swallow You Whole" (2011) is reproduced from Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism, the D.A.P. new release launching in April at the Whitney Museum of American Art. "Hernan Bas's mixed-media works combine silkscreen, block printing and paint to make landscape a realm for the supernatural and sinister," we read in the book. "Growing up in Miami, Bas was exposed to local folklore about UFO, werewolf and Bigfoot sightings in the Florida wetlands, which inspired his interest in the occult. Bas, who is openly gay, is known for featuring young male waifs and dandies drawn from literary works by Oscar Wilde and J.K. Huysmans in small-scale, sexually fraught narratives; in his later works, the landscape assumes a larger, more spiritual role and themes have become more universal."