Hank Schmidt in der Beek

Fabian Schubert (Germany, 1974) and Hank Schmidt in der Beek play on the historical rivalry between painting and photography as they merge the pictorial genres of self-portraiture and landscape. Produced on the sites that inspired Cézanne, Monet and Van Gogh, the Self-Portrait Landscape series mocks the stance of the outdoor painter with his easel, as the motif of the artist’s clothes become the subject of the painting. These images were presented along the lakeside in Vevey together with a new on-site photographic performance by the duo, with Le Grammont, symbolist painter Ferdinand Hodler’s favorite mountain, as a backdrop.