The Galician artist Rut Massó has designed two new, large-scale posters for the art island at Lenbachplatz. The double-sided “Pangea-Atlantik” installation shows two collages representing a geographical connection to the Galician landscapes on the Atlantic coast. A beeline between Lenbachplatz and Galicia has the same alignment as the billboard on the art island, which, like the landscapes, is aligned to the East (North-East) and West (South-West). In this way, the Atlantic sundown and sunrise are transposed to Lenbachplatz.
The Pangea series by Rut Massó is based on spatial conceptions from a time some 300 to 150 million years ago, when the supercontinent Pangea expanded by 138 million km². The workings of enormous forces formed today’s landscapes over millions of years. The movements of the land masses, the clashing and interlocking of different levels on the earth’s surface and the seemingly infinite slowness with which new continents are created produce landscapes for Rut Massó, which become mixed with their own creation. Abstractions, which unite the past with the future, primitives with science fiction, movement with static, lightness with weight, the recognisable with the unknown.
Rut Massó, born in 1970 in Vigo, Spain, lives and works in Munich.
