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This contemporary version of the Endless Landscape is presented as a set of 18 fridge magnets, although they work equally well spread out on a table. The paintings for this landscape were created in 2006 by the artist Alice Angus, and depict a panorama based around London and the River Thames. Part fact and part fiction, the Endless Landscape alters geography and connects events across the timeline of history. Its panoramas are littered with improbable landscapes, curiosities, ghostly evocations, historical anomalies and architectural conundrums.Erno Goldfinger’s 1966 Trellick Tower has been moved to the riverside where it might be neighbour to The Tower of London, begun by William the Conqueror in 1078. The phantom of a WW2 Barrage Balloon has drifted through time, denying airspace to enemy aircraft, while the Montgolfiers’ 1783 hot air balloon floats by. An apparition of the 1903 Spencer Airship No2 shimmers over the city as people hurry into the Underground. A shadow of the de Havilland DH60 Gipsy Moth in which Amy Johnson flew from England to Australia in 1930 shares the skies with helicopters, Concorde, airliners and geese flying south for winter.Haunting the Thames are spectres of its maritime history: the spirits of sailing boats and steam barges drift by along with the hulk of the SS Great Eastern. Built in 1858 by Isambard Kingdom Brunel to carry 4000 transatlantic passengers, it ironically heralded the dawn of telecommunications by laying 4200 km of the telegraph cable that connected Britain and North America in 1865. The 18 magnets are each 58 x 44mm.Write a review about: Magnetic Endless LandscapeAsk a question about: Magnetic Endless LandscapePeople who bought this item also bought:
