Marc Mulders, Landgoed Baest, 2009
Baest – Secret Landscape
Photos by Marc Mulders
In 2008 the artist Marc Mulders decided to escape the busy city centre of Tilburg. Since then he has been living on one of the farms on the De Baest estate near Oirschot. This oasis of nature lies like a secluded, secret room between flat meadows and endless cornfields.
The woods on the estate are, for Mulders, his outdoor studio. He can often be found there at sunrise or sundown, ‘when mist, fog and twilight put their brush to canvas’, as he describes it himself. With the eye of a painter Mulders uses his camera to capture the magnificent displays of light and colour that he witnesses in the landscape.
Healing images
The result is thirty large-format colour photos, on view at the Baest – Secret Landscape exhibition. The theme is the rhythm of day and night and of the seasons and the photos are aimed at those not yet familiar with the natural beauty of De Baest. But Mulders’ intention is that they also be seen as ‘healing images’, as an antidote to the disruption of the balance of nature as a result of intensive livestock breeding against which he has been protesting vigorously.
Applied works
Mulders’ previously unseen photos fit neatly in a multifaceted body of work in which his paintings lie at the core. A small selection from his applied work will also be on view.
Photobook
The Baest photobook will be launched at this exhibition. Secret Landscape; available in the museum shop.
