About the artwork
With its broad black-and-white brushstrokes, this oil on canvas depicts a mountainous landscape seen from the sky. Conrad Jon Godly plays with the alternation between a strong white touch reminiscent of snow settling on boulders, and a more vaporous touch leading the snow to merge with the clouds. Her brushstrokes, both abstract and figurative, produce a spectacular illusion of volume. Between reverie and reality, in the manner of the masters of Japanese ink and printmaking, this canvas where "darkness is light" is part of a series bearing the same name and exhibited at the Shibunkaku gallery in Kyoto, Japan, in 2018.
Expert opinion
Somewhere between figuration and abstraction, this work is typical of Conrad Jon Godly's Dark is Light series, which focuses on nature and mountains.
About the artist
Conrad Jon Godly is a Swiss artist born in 1962. After graduating from the Basel School of Art in Switzerland, he moved to the United States, where he produced his first photographic works. Perfecting his technique, in the early 2000s he produced photographic prints for international magazines and advertisements. It wasn't until he returned to the mountains of his childhood in Graubünden in 2004 that he switched to painting, making high mountain landscapes his preferred and almost exclusive subject. Exporting his work to Asia, he set up a new studio in Japan in 2016, where he was honored by Kyoto's oldest Zen temple, the Ryosokuin-Kenninji. His work is the subject of numerous exhibitions around the world, including in Taiwan, Seoul and Singapore, as well as at the Tony Wuethrich Gallery in Basel, Switzerland, and the Shibunkaku Gallery in Kyoto. His work is also included in public collections, including Swiss banks such as the Swiss National Bank, CS Banque and United Banks of Switzerland.
“The awesome power of the mountains, nature par excellence, puts us in our place and shows us just how insignificant we are.”
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