Pilar Corrias presents âFireflies Under Fever Sky,â Pierre Knopâs debut solo exhibition, featuring vivid landscapes that challenge perception. Rooted in personal archives and influenced by art history, Knop reinterprets traditional European landscape painting through a contemporary lens. His vivid color palette and diverse techniques produce a hallucinatory effect, where familiar settings become alienated. Each piece reflects a deeper tension between beauty and foreboding, inviting viewers to confront an underlying narrative of imminent disturbance within idyllic scenes. The artist's work represents a significant evolution in landscape painting, merging historical references with a modern sensibility.
In Knop's worlds, the landscape is less an idyll than it is a stage for an impending event. The suns and moons that preside over his skies like portents allude to a foreboding undercurrent of hidden disturbances, waiting in the near distance.
Using a feverish colour palette, a current of electricity runs through Knop's bucolic scenes. The forest canopy, cast in indigo blue, stretches out across scarlet-red skies; plantlife glows unnaturally amid the undergrowth.
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