Minna Kantonen
Dafna Talmor
Emma Wieslander
Marco Strappato
& selected book artists

On Landscape #2, Matèria’s inaugural exhibition, featured photographic work by Dafna Talmor, Emma Wieslander and Minna Kantonen, founders of On Landscape Project. The three artists were joined by guest artist Marco Strappato, whose work provided a thematically adjacent addition, expanding Talmor, Wieslander and Kantonen’s shared dialogue. The exhibition also included a display of books sourced from an open call. The first exhibition by On Landscape Project took place throughout March 2014 at Yinka Shonibare’s Guest Projects, London, funded by the Arts Council of England. On Landscape #2 aimed to expand on research initiated by its first exhibition, engaging in further reflection on representations of landscape in relation to a set of preconceived ideas, traditions and pictorial conventions.

A central element of On Landscape Project consists of a library of self-published, hand-made or short run artists books, relating to the project ethos. The 44 publications included in On Landscape #2 were sourced from an open call and selected by a judging panel formed by Chiara Capodici and Fiorenza Pinna of 3/3, Gianpaolo Arena of Landscape Stories, Matèria’s gallery director Niccolò Fano and the On Landscape Project team. The book display aims to provide a platform for wider debates around landscape through a diverse range of practitioners’ work.