Drawing and Reinventing Landscape, AD Primer by Diana Balmori

Author:Diana Balmori
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781118541197
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2014-11-24T16:00:00+00:00

This attempt to create a sensory connectivity is expressed in Andersson’s drawings, particularly in his very early sketches, which are often done in loose watercolour strokes that have a fresh childlike quality. How do you convey landscapes designed more for the touch than for the eye? In the Mud Garden in Xi’an, China, that Andersson designed for an annual expo of 2011, he does just that. It delights in the reddish mud that local residents consider more of an inconvenience than an asset. His early sketches refer to the landscape’s materials – water, snow, rain, mud. The mud becomes sculptures that are baked and then painted fiery red, intensifying the colour of the soil to make it clear that these are artificial constructions. He reinvents Chinese garden rocks, and in the process, draws attention to the earth he uses to create them. There is a large yellow bridge across a major river not too far from the site. In the spirit of the familiar Chinese and Japanese landscape aesthetic, Andersson builds a bridge across the garden’s shallow waters and mud fields and paints it yellow, as if he were miniaturising aspects of the surrounding landscape.

Stig Andersson, first sketch, Yellow Mud Garden, Xi’an International Horticultural Expo, China, 2010. Marker on paper.

This sketch shows Andersson’s interest in the materials of water, snow and rain. Abstract sculptural forms allude to Chinese garden rocks and the reddish soil commonly found in Xi’an and celebrated in the garden.

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