Amanda Lydért & Frederik Nystrup-Larsen I Landscape Is a Verb I Servando Gallery, Havana

Now open
Brigade is happy to present 'Landscape is a verb', a duo exhibition by Amanda Lydért and Frederik Nystrup-Larsen, now open at Servando Gallery in Havana, Cuba.
The exhibition centers around the use and consumption of naturalistic imagery and the exchange of beauty. Through Cuban post stamps, product labels, cast coconuts and multiple other artifacts, Lýdert and Nystrup-Larsen investigate the sublime as well as the faux.
By copying, imitating, and conserving The Landscape, the works pose as souvenirs for the future, paying an homage to nature, the ultimate beauty ideal. One that is meant to simultaneously please and spark discomfort. The exhibition is a part of the artists' ongoing concept 'Import/export', working from universal phenomena manifested in various locations through site-specific installations.
'Landscape is a verb' has been realized through the artists' participation in Brigade's Havana residency programme. For one month, Lydért and Nystrup-Larsen have researched, conceptualized and produced all works locally. These site-specific pieces are showcased alongside works by previous artists in residence, including; Rune Bering, Søren Sejr, Coline Marotta, Martin Gallone.
 
Installations shot from Landscape is a Verb by Amanda Lydért and Frederik Nystrup-Larsen shown by Brigade Gallery and Servando Gallery
 
Landscape is a verb

 

Catch the suggestion -

to make it one ́s objective

to create accounts of fading beauty.

Art conservators getting their hands dirty.

Knees green from the sublime.

Test artistic practice as documentation,

documentation as practice.

 

Import /export

this idea

Or a distorted flower moment

Stored in the 2-dimensional

Immortalised with sun block ultra

 

Enter installation: nature pastiche -

and know that nature is the only artwork

that needs to be copied

 

See it tied up on centre stage

acting courages under bondage

mariposa puma in an AI glass cage

Smells like honey and heavy like national anthems

 

Enter room of souvenirs.

To smell the nostalgia incense

toasting on the insides of your mind. Only.

Breathe in air freshener.

Ocean breeeeeeeze promises.

Out.

 

Coco, Call them relics -

objects made to survive this time;

made to outlive the phenomena they each represent.

Coco, recall your sentimental interest. In bio.

 

Enter plastic echo of landscapes.

Understand that ghost prints

are exhausted versions of reality

 

Play the simulated sun

- as it rises and sets two times each hour.

Repeat.

And know that in landscaping;

the result to the equation is always (in) the horizon.

 

Hold on to this image. Forever.

 

Think about:

 

Reproducing beauty

Recycling Beauty

Maintaining beauty

Immortalising beauty

Narrating beauty Owning beauty?

 

See it executed behind plexi and jokes

 

Exit room of synthetic reproductions

Count the repetitions under their tongue

as you continue to conzoooome.

 

Import / export the ideal landscape

The perfect keepsake

For a romantic era lived in acid hungover bodies

Fridge magnet memory

filed under “picturesque tradition”

 

Exit luxury shop

 

And forget your innocence.

Blow out expensive incense and deal.

 

 Installations shot from Landscape is a Verb by Amanda Lydért and Frederik Nystrup-Larsen shown by Brigade Gallery and Servando Gallery

 

Installations shot from Landscape is a Verb by Amanda Lydért and Frederik Nystrup-Larsen shown by Brigade Gallery and Servando Gallery

 

Installations shot from Landscape is a Verb by Amanda Lydért and Frederik Nystrup-Larsen shown by Brigade Gallery and Servando Gallery

February 8, 2023