After education and working experience as Graphic Designer, Aquil Copier later pursued painting studies at Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, where he graduated in 2004. Since then, he has been exploring the subject of 'landscape' with reference to traditional paintings as well as the contemporary image production in the context of mass-media and information technology. This has resulted in large size oil paintings (painted on panels or canvas), where bird view landscapes are portrayed in a manner that intentionally plays between abstract and figurative canons, -thanks to a peculiar painting technique the artist applies. The works comment on the limits of representation and the supposed objectivity and truthfulness of every image, including maps, aerial photographs, navigation software or the world atlas.
Exhibition runs from October 25, 2008 - November 29, 2008
Reception: Saturday October 25, 16:00 - 19:00 hrs
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