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Painting from Ken Dalgado's Sculptured Lanscapes |
Ken Dalgado's exhibit Sculpted Landscapes focused on and chronicles the now decaying and vanishing farm buildings and grain elevators that once dotted the flat Saskatchewan prairies.
These monuments stand - barely- not only as a fading symbol of the toil and bond pioneers once had with the land but also as a strong symbol of our own fleeting and fragile place in the world. Like the rugged land and swirling skies these canvases are painted with an ultra thick paint application, creating a seductive tactile texture of swirling furrows and ridges - in essence a landscape within a landscape.
Also see Disappearing Landscapes and Images - The Prairies.
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