Eva Nielsen's Spiritual and Pictorial Explorations at Galerie Dominique Fiat

Eva Nielsen's exhibition at Galerie Dominique Fiat in Paris from October 15 to November 26, 2011, presents new works that continue her signature blend of painted backgrounds inspired by Ruysdael's skies and opaque silkscreen flat areas. The contrast between movement and stillness is heightened. Her landscapes evoke American deserts and French suburbs with abandoned constructions. The series is marked by a spiritual quest referencing Thoreau's Walden. Nielsen engages art history, with a contemporary Tower of Babel recalling Bruegel and a hotel facade subtly alluding to Edward Hopper. Many paintings are diptychs where the main motif—a water tower or silo—is split by a gap between stretchers, creating a cubist-like decomposition of movement, as if seen from a moving train. Some works installed in corners become almost sculptural, melancholically addressing the impossibility of representation in painting.