Landscape Marked IV

Clive van den Berg
Landscape Marked IV, 2024
Oil on canvas
180 x 120 x 5 cm

Clive van den Berg (b. 1956, Luanshya, Zambia) has focused on pioneering the insertion of queer perspectives into the larger rewrite of South African history throughout the course of his prolific forty-year career. Van den Berg has produced a range of works unified by his enduring focus on five interrelated themes: memory, light, landscape, desire and body. ‘Landscape Marked IV’ continues his engagement with the idea of the land as a porous receptacle for lived experience. In this work the artist continues to reflect on his own complex relationship to landscape, communicating a more visceral articulation of this engagement. This is embedded in the quality of the paint as much as the construction of the paintings and the abstract imagery that emerges on the canvas.