Gan-Erdene TSEND: Landschaften

The Paintings of Gan-Erdene Tsend are wide, deep and
boundless.

They look like we imagine the artist’s Mongolian
homeland: lonesome, flat landscapes without alternations,
without dramatic views, without thrills.

As far as classical
(European) landscape painting is concerned, only a few
incentives are offered: no trees, no rivers, hardly any
human being, only desert and steppe.

This is no pattern
for the European “heroic” landscape.

But anyway, the well
balanced composition of foreground, middle ground and
background as the foundation of a refined picture
dramaturgy in relation to the arrangement of the
perspective plane, has lost its validity for contemporary
artists.

What can interest you then, is the difference of the
image and the empirical reality. Thus, the question of all
valid art has to be: What does exist only in the painting
itself? Where, in what form ever, does the painted work
distinguish itself from just optically perceived reality?