The Wonder Way review – artists grapple with the outdoors in study of beautiful chaos

Emmanuelle Antille’s diffuse film begins with her grandmother’s passion for her garden before exploring a range of artists reimagining landscapeThis dense yet maddingly diffuse work by Swiss documentary maker Emmanuelle Antille starts with the director reflecting on her late grandmother’s intense devotion to her suburban garden, of which she made more than a thousand drawings. From this, Antille builds out an ambition to explore a number of outdoor spaces framed by extraordinary imaginations.Several of these are professional artists, well established names such as Charles Ross who builds monumental observatory-like concrete and earthwork structures to engage with the cosmos. A division or two down in renown come collaborative artists Anne Marie Jugnet and Alain Clairet, also known as Jugnet + Clairet, who work in various media that engage with landscapes, from paintings that reproduce regular Ordnance Survey maps but with key bits of information left off, or marble sculptures of clouds. Elsewhere, we’re introduced to the very intriguing legacy of the now deceased Noah S Purifoy, more of a classic outsider artist who worked with found materials and scrap, building himself an outdoor museum in the California desert. Continue reading...

Mar 10, 2025 - 13:58
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The Wonder Way review – artists grapple with the outdoors in study of beautiful chaos

Emmanuelle Antille’s diffuse film begins with her grandmother’s passion for her garden before exploring a range of artists reimagining landscape

This dense yet maddingly diffuse work by Swiss documentary maker Emmanuelle Antille starts with the director reflecting on her late grandmother’s intense devotion to her suburban garden, of which she made more than a thousand drawings. From this, Antille builds out an ambition to explore a number of outdoor spaces framed by extraordinary imaginations.

Several of these are professional artists, well established names such as Charles Ross who builds monumental observatory-like concrete and earthwork structures to engage with the cosmos. A division or two down in renown come collaborative artists Anne Marie Jugnet and Alain Clairet, also known as Jugnet + Clairet, who work in various media that engage with landscapes, from paintings that reproduce regular Ordnance Survey maps but with key bits of information left off, or marble sculptures of clouds. Elsewhere, we’re introduced to the very intriguing legacy of the now deceased Noah S Purifoy, more of a classic outsider artist who worked with found materials and scrap, building himself an outdoor museum in the California desert. Continue reading...