THINKING ABOUT THE ANDORRAN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE
Pictorial installation
Technical sheet
Installation measures according to the exhibition space
4 oil paintings on 100% natural linen canvas, 100 F format
4 written closures (different quotations): wood, bundles of straw, nails, iron wire. 240 × 80 cm.
1 slaughter table and poetic elements.
3 video screens
Taken in the context of painting alone, the landscape would therefore become a figurative representation, intended to attract the spectator’s eye through the means of perspective. The more the elements are studied, the more the painting appears to be in harmony, framed in a form, and then invites us to take an interest in all the aspects of the landscape. In the same way that a beautiful painting gives access to it. (Anne Cauquelin, 2000)
Pris dans le contexte de la seule peinture, le paysage se ramènerait donc à une représentation figurée, destinée à séduire l’œil du spectateur, par le moyen de l’illusion perspective. L’épaisseur des éléments naturels, leur mise en relief, le tableau, pour paraître dans l’harmonie cadrée d’une forme et inciterait alors à s’intéresser à tous les aspects de la Nature, comme à une réalité à laquelle le tableau donnerait accès. (Anne Cauquelin, 2000)
Translated passage available upon request.
Thinking About the Andorran Agricultural Landscape
THE STRAW
Oil painting on linen canvas · 2025
Format 100 F · 163 × 130 cm
This landscape embodies a form of balance between human activity and the natural environment, on a scale that is both humble and majestic. I wanted to represent this suspended moment when the field has just been mown, the lines drawn across it emphasizing the agricultural gesture and the care given to the land. Here, straw becomes pictorial matter and, at the same time, a symbol of a cycle — that of the harvest, the work, and the preparation for the following season.
THE TOBACCO
Oil painting on linen canvas · 2025
Format 100 F · 163 × 130 cm
For this work, I asked a family to let me know when the tobacco harvest was about to take place, so that I could document this stage of the agricultural cycle. I wanted to represent tobacco in two complementary forms: planted in the open air, arranged to structure the field, and then harvested and spread out on the ground, forming an organic composition that echoes the landscape. The scene takes place in Arans, in the parish of Ordino. The harvest takes place at the beginning of September.
THE HERDING
Oil painting on linen canvas · 2025
Format 100 F · 163 × 130 cm
For this work, I went to Casa Toni Vila, in Auvinyà, in the parish of Sant Julià de Lòria. It is a family farm with a large agricultural estate, specialising in cattle and cows. I wanted to preserve a coherent visual composition with the other paintings: a strong pictorial mass in the lower part, representing the animals, contrasting with the lightness of the green field above. The herd itself becomes the landscape.
FARM EDGES
Oil painting on linen canvas · 2025
Format 100 F · 163 × 130 cm
This work depicts the edges of Peguera, located in the south of the country, near La Rabassa. What particularly moved me in this landscape is its structural clarity, the legibility of the territory: the mountains on one side, the forest on the other, and between them, cultivated land. This natural composition says a great deal about the relationship between humans and their environment. It reveals a fragile balance: if these lands were no longer cultivated, the woods would gradually reclaim them, erasing the open space that agriculture maintains.
Inscribed fence
