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Anders Oinonen, Anthony Miler, Brendan Lynch, Caroline Larsen, Cecilia Fiona, Eric Yahnker, Jeremy Shockley, Leo Park, Magda Kirk, Mathew Tom, Matt Belk, Matthew Hansel, Matthew F Fisher, Ramiro Hernandez, Tim Irani

Paris, France — The Hole’s yearly thematic group extravaganza now across three galleries New York, Los Angeles and here at Superzoom, Manscaping looks at depictions of landscape today with a whiff of gender nonsense.

Manscaping we interpret as nature impacted by mankind, not male grooming habits of course; how the idea of raw and rugged untouched nature is an anachronism. Instead of nature “red in tooth and claw” we have symmetrical and still nature, smoothed out and shaved; fantastical or virtual.

In landscape today we see magical realism, a topiary-like control, and a digital framework. Magical realism has landscapes coming alive with activity and spirit, as in the detailed swirling screen by Cecilia Fiona. The tight control of the natural world comes across in the discrete and symmetrical shapings of Matthew Fisher or Anthony Miler. And the digital tools impacting our way of giving image to nature inform the work of Tim Irani or Matt Belk.

In this show we include female body as landscape but also male body as landscape and also no-body as landscape, as well as some humorous gender chiché-upending and an actual hairy man-scape from Magda Kirk.

Having a profound transcendental experience with the natural world may not be as much of a thing today as it was in the Romantic era. Instead of “Monk By the Sea” we have Zefeldt’s character in Grand Theft Auto looking out onto the beautiful programmed hills of the video game. As the wild, natural world is destroyed perhaps the future of landscape as a genre is the digital sublime.

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