Louis Blondiau
Perceptual landscapes
"Beathing Panorama phase1" 12 panels of 61x122 cm, oil on panel, framed with meranti wood, 2026
A 360° landscape in twelve vertical panels. Each panel connects precisely to the next, forming a continuous panoramic field. The viewer is not placed in front of the landscape, but within it. The project takes its departure from Panorama Mesdag in Den Haag. It further draws on the Chinese shanshui tradition—developed over many centuries—in which landscape is understood not as a collection of objects but as a dynamic configuration of forces.
Mountains and clouds are not fixed things but shifting structures. Emptiness functions as an active element within the composition. The work opens into wide, atmospheric expanses where forms dissolve into light. Then it contracts into the density of a forest where trunks rise close, enclosing the viewer. From this point of immersion, space gradually releases again, returning to distance and dispersion. The panorama oscillates between presence and dissolution, between being within and looking across.
The Panorama as an Evolving Work
This panorama is conceived as a living work. Each time a collector acquires a panel, they leave a trace within the piece and become part of its transformation. Acquired panels are replaced by slightly more "fused" versions, allowing the panorama to evolve over time. The collector does not simply obtain a fragment; they contribute to the work's ongoing evolution. Each collector preserves a fragment of an earlier state of the panorama while simultaneously contributing to its future transformation.
Panorama starting with panel 7
Panorama starting with panel 1
