Daniel Enkaoua

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Overview

View towards the peninsula, 2012-2013

Oil on canvas
97 × 161,5 cm
Signed Signed, dated and titled on the verso
Provenance:
Studio of the artist
Literature:
Modern and Contemporary Masters: Daniel Enkaoua. Hrsg. v. The Helander Foundation, Wellington/Florida 2026, S. 84f.
Anette Brunner, Daniel Enkaoua: Vue vers le Pénédes, in: Kunst-Stücke: Eine Ausstellung auf Reisen, München - Hannover - Köln, Ausst.-Kat. Galerie Koch, Hannover 2021, S. 66f.
The French-Israeli painter Daniel Enkaoua has been exploring the landscape of Catalonia artistically since 2007. The artist, who has lived in Barcelona since 2004, first encountered the rocky massif of Montserrat, an imposing mountain range with a magical aura that rises from the hilly hinterland of the Catalonian capital and can be seen from afar, in that year. Since then, the painter has repeatedly immersed himself in the landscape around Barcelona, preferring to paint in the Penedès region to the south-west of the metropolis in the direction of Montserrat. In Vue vers le pénédes, too, we seem to perceive the geologically unique mountain range in the distance. From a slightly elevated vantage point, the viewer's gaze sweeps over a slightly hilly green-brown landscape with scattered trees and bushes to the distant horizon. A cloudy sky rises above the landscape, bathing it in a light haze. Although Enkaoua's landscapes are created in front of nature and depict sections of visible reality, they are by no means vedute. Enkaoua's landscapes seem timeless, almost mythical; they appear to be parables and have a distinctly mystical suggestive power: the landscape as an experience of the numinous.