Article: Peter Rostovsky at The Project. (New York).(Brief Article)

Paintings that depict the beauty and immensity of nature and man's puniness within it were a specialty of Romantic painters. Peter Rostovsky's third solo show at The Project was at once a lampoon of and homage to Romantic landscape painting. He literally took man out of the landscape by placing figurative sculptures on chest-high pedestals in front of both Epiphany Model 3 (2001), a 2-by-6-foot canvas showing an ominous horizon of sky and sea in gray and beige, and Epiphany Model 2 (2001), a 7-foot-diameter tondo depicting a pink and blue sky. The small male figurines (about 6 inches high) were dressed like modern-day hikers and stood, a la Caspar David Friedrich, on ...

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