{"product_id":"harold-ancart-traveling-light-hardcover","title":"Harold Ancart: Traveling Light - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHarold Ancart\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBob Nickas\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eLaura McLean-Ferris\u003c\/b\u003e (Text by (Art\/Photo Books))\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn his rich new body of work, the Belgian artist Harold Ancart turns an immersive landscape of trees, mountains, and seas into a meditation on painting itself. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAncart often paints subjects that naturally invite contemplation, such as the horizon, clouds, flowers, flames, and icebergs. His newest body of work captures the experience of landscape seen in motion or from a distance: trees blurred while driving past, a far-off inky-black sea, an evocative Martian mountain range. Recalling René Magritte, Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, and Piet Mondrian, who approached this subject matter in distinct ways, Ancart blurs form and color, figure and ground, and figuration and abstraction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Reproduced here in magnificent foldouts, two multipanel canvases situate the viewer between a mountainscape and a seascape, both monumental in scale. Ancart segments the seascape with a stark horizon line, dividing sky and ocean. Like other comparable motifs within the artist's oeuvre, the vividly colored cloudy sky functions in an anthropomorphic way, alluding to the endless possibilities and personalities of organic forms. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Including an interview with the artist by Bob Nickas, this catalogue offers insight into Ancart's frank reflections on painting, writing, nature, and more. The publication also features a new essay by Laura McLean-Ferris. Taken together, the works in \u003ci\u003eTraveling Light \u003c\/i\u003emeditate on the expansive possibilities of painting.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarold Ancart\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1980) is a Belgian-born, New York-based artist who works in various media including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, and sculpture. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBob Nickas\u003c\/b\u003e, a writer and curator based in New York, has organized more than 120 exhibitions since 1984. His books include \u003ci\u003ePainting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting\u003c\/i\u003e (2014) and four collections of his writings and interviews: \u003ci\u003eLive Free or Die\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), \u003ci\u003eTheft Is Vision\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), \u003ci\u003eThe Dept. of Corrections\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), and \u003ci\u003eKomplaint Dept.\u003c\/i\u003e (2018). Most recently, he has contributed essays to \u003ci\u003eVija Celmins\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), \u003ci\u003eBrand New: Art \u0026amp; Commodity in the 1980s\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), \u003ci\u003eRobert Grosvenor\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), and \u003ci\u003eJosh Smith: Emo Jungle\u003c\/i\u003e (David Zwirner Books, 2020). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaura McLean-Ferris\u003c\/b\u003e is chief curator at Swiss Institute, New York, and a writer. She regularly contributes to \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArtReview\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArt-Agenda\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEven\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003efrieze\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMousse\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFlash Art\u003c\/i\u003e, and has authored catalogue essays for monographs on the work of Nina Beier, Anna-Sophie Berger, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Deimantas Narkevicius, Rachel Rose, and Hayley Tompkins. She was the recipient of the 2015 Creative Capital Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and her short-form collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Lacustrine\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2016. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 100\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 11.57 x 10 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 09, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42728514093119,"sku":"9781644230510","price":72.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/8a18edca0622bde8a7d0c053b4b885a8.webp?v=1765118793","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/harold-ancart-traveling-light-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}