Landscape Painting (The Hole)

Nordskoven

Swedish visual artist Jonas Liveröd was the creator of the exhibition *Rite of Passage*. He himself contributed the work *Landscape Painting (The Hole)*. This is what one might call a “non-sculpture.” It is about what is not there. The hole takes away from, rather than adds to, the natural landscape. It is a painted landscape that references classical Romantic landscape painting. But in the experience of beautiful nature, holes are not usually included—we avoid them or fill them in. Holes are strange, mysterious, and a little bit scary, and above all, difficult to define. They lie outside our comfort zone, and this is where we find Jonas’s contribution: a strange place between beauty and fear.