About

Eckart’s recent works reflect upon our climate crisis and involve photographs of pristine natural locations and phenomena, seemingly untouched by civilization, such as woodlands and cloudscapes. These large-scale works are a way for the artist to think visually about new ways of picture-making in the post-internet era. They reference 19th and 20th century painting in the tradition of the Northern Romantic Sublime of works such as Casper David Friedrich's lone figures, J.M.W. Turner's turbulent seascapes, Frederic Church's breathtaking landscapes and J.A.M. Whistler's …