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Sixteen Landscape Compositions (after Alexander Cozens) and other works at Volta4 2008

photograph: Nicholas Winter

Installation shot of booth, showing, from left to right:
'Paths Looked for, Paths Lost'(pencil on paper, 2008, paper size 50 x 70 cm/19.8" x 27.5")
'Sixteen Landscape Compositions [after Alexander Cozens]' 2008, a single work in 16 frames, (paper size: 66 x 89 cm/26" x 35", each frame: 74 x 97 cm/29" x 37") ink and wax on paper, 2008.
'Fotoplastikon' dvd, 2008, 03:46 min, edition 3.

'Sixteen Landscape Compositions [after Alexander Cozens]' 2008, is a series of 16 drawings based on a treatise by Alexander Cozens, the late 18th Century writer and artist, entitled 'The Various Species of Landscape Composition in Nature'. Cozens' work was an attempt to reflect landscape ecology as a theoretical basis for nature in relation to 18th Century empirical epistemology. It attempted to describe the various characteristics of nature and a systematic way of experiencing the enlightenment of nature.