Landscape

The landscape remained one of Carl Chiarenza’s main interests even after he entered the studio in 1979 and took his work indoors. In an interview with his daughter, Gabeilla, Chiarenza explains his evolving idea of landscape. I always liked being outdoors in the landscape pictorially-speaking, because I liked looking at landscape and the things that nature put together and made interesting to look at, but I never liked being outdoors, physically, because even as a child I had trouble with heat and sunstroke. So while I was working with collages in the studio, I guess I started trying to make my own landscapes. So some of the collages I made were in fact inspired by landscape ideas or visions that I imagined, that could be made with paper and especially torn paper, to give a sense of a landscape moving across the surface. So a lot of the work that I was doing in those days—and still—have a reflection of my interest in landscape, which I couldn’t do physically. Source: Gabriella Chiarenza Interview (December 20, 2019)