Karlijn de Lange
I.G.: @kar__line
Untitled
Oil paint and crayons on canvas
39 x 47 inch
2022
Karlijn de Lange is a Dutch artist whose work harbors fragmented recollections of desert sceneries, exploring the boundaries between landscape and abstraction through painting and drawing techniques. The work reimagines a vast phenomenal space constituted of both real and imagined memories of cinematic desert land as frames of landscape fragmentations. A memory becomes a map, a documentation of the past devising topographies of longing. Through the abstraction of folds and creases of the sublime desert, perceptions of space and distance are challenged. However, after a closer look, one can start recognizing lines as roads or rivers, real life signifiers that point to actual landscapes as suggested by the coordinates in the names of certain works.
36°46'34''N 114°14'47''W
Pencil and fine liner on paper
5.8 x 8.3 inch
2020
35°59'40''N 115°27'32''W
Pencil on paper
8.3 x 11.7 inch
2020
36°25'12''N 116°48'44''W
Oil, pencil and crayon on paper
8.3 x 11.7 inch
2021
35°14'27''N 118°07'54''W
Pencil on paper
8.3 x 11.7 inch
2022