COLOGNE.- Field of View is the first solo exhibition of Eelco Brand in Cologne. Gallery [DAM] Cologne shows for the first time the new film M.movi on three screens along with Brand’s 3D constructed colour prints and his handmade pencil drawings. 
An abstract molecularly looking object is floating above a hyperreal marsh landscape, a glossy blue amorphous form is lying on a meadow. The oeuvre of Eelco Brand belongs to a pictorial tradition in which landscape and genre scenes play a leading role, but goes beyond the traditional forms of this genre. Realistically looking landscapes are combined with abstract components. The landscapes seem familiar to us, evoking the impression of having seen them before – stereotypes, completely virtually constructed, but of a strong expressive power. But is not any form of visualisation of landscapes constructed, even those we see in our mind’s eye when we imagine a landscape? The artw