CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/10/2019

Exterior, interior and virtual all at once in 'Landscape Painting Now' painter Corrine Wasmuht

Berlin-based Corrine Wasmuht’s “Llanganuco Falls” (2008) is reproduced from Landscape Painting Now, the D.A.P. blockbuster edited by Todd Bradway. (Read an interview with Bradway here.) Barry Schwabsky writes, “In the century or more since the inception of abstract painting, there has been a constant tension, a push and pull between the desire to hold on to the sources of abstract pictorial space in embodied experiences of vision, as for instance in landscape, and the equally compelling desire to see the new spatial possibilities proposed by abstraction as fundamentally distinct from what those sources made possible.” He describes Wasmuht’s massive panoramas as “woven together from quantities of source imagery so that the engulfing space seems equal parts video game, street scene and shopping mall—exterior, interior and virtual all at once.”