Real Landscapes
Rules for Real Landscapes:
The difference between a landscape and a landview is that the former is always hacked and edited, while the latter is always protected and respected.
Todd Bartel
• Real Landscapes must be comprised of several sources
• Real Landscapes illuminate the history of land depiction
• Real Landscapes areconstructed through “puzzle-piece” collage techniques [after Michael Oatman]
• Real Landscapes must have two frames:
- Virtual—collaged, replete with color, texture and old world quality
- Actual—plasticized, devoid of color, texture and replete with new world materiality
• Real Landscapes’ actual frames must be wireless and appear to defy the laws of gravity.
Todd Bartel 2005
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Real Landscape No. 1
2005
Puzzle-piece collage, using auction house catalogs, with archival tape, in artist designed Plexiglass frame.
3 5/8” x 5 1/16”
Framed 6 x 7 ½”
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Real Landscape No. 2
2006
Puzzle-piece collage, using auction house catalogs, with archival tape, in artist designed Plexiglass frame.
4 15/16 x 7”
Framed 7” x 9 1/2”
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Demonstration of “Puzzle-piece” collage techniques, after Michael Oatman
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Designer Landscape No.1
2006-11
Puzzle-piece collage, using auction house catalogs and burnished inkjet print (of Photoshop manipulated “The Rest on the Flight into Egypt,” Circle of Joachim Patinier, ca 1485-1524), with archival tape
7 3/4 x 6 1/2”
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Designer Landscape No. 2
2006-11
Puzzle-piece collage, using auction house catalogs and burnished inkjet print (of Photoshop manipulated “The Rest on the Flight into Egypt,” Circle of Joachim Patinier, ca 1485-1524), with archival tape
6 1/2 x 7 3/4”
