Glen Rubsamen

The production of Glen Rubsamen (Los Angeles, 1957), represents a new landscape in which - beyond the apparent image - remains an interest to collect situations of Nature loaded with great dramatic emotion. It is a succinct landscape where the organic object appear across artificial images and where the beauty is not lost, but has turned into a somewhat ambivalent one. Treatment of color, absence of human figure, as well as absence of references, create an atmosphere that the artist names ‘Post-Nature’, taking this concept as a place where the elements do not have memory, but are there as witnesses of time.

Glen Rubsamen_With The Simplicity And Brutality Characteristic Of Real Life

The prints depict a small field of sunflowers next to the Seville-Cordoba highway near the town of Carmona. In the middle of this field a large pine tree hosted several stork nests for nearly half a century, until the winter of 2007, when lighting cut the tree in two. The farmer of the sunflower field was heart-broken, as the Storks had become over the years a physical embodiment of good luck and prosperity. The farmer with the assistance of Sevillana (The electrical company of Andalusia) built two scientifically designed artificial towers with nests on either side of the ruined pine in the hope that the Storks might return. Sevillana was afraid the returning Storks would nest instead on nearby telecommunication poles and cause cell outages. One family of storks finally did return the following year but ignored the man-made nests and built a new one on the stump of the old pine. An act of supreme stubbornness and disdain.

Printed by Elena Alonso and Antonio Cañadas.

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