Pierre Knop's third solo show turns fully to landscapes, dropping the human figures that once populated his work. Named partly after Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring," which he played on repeat while painting, the show features 11 works made over a year across oil, acrylic, ink, and pastel. Knop treats his compositions as inner rather than observed realities, embracing mistakes as a "third hand" guiding each piece toward the unplanned. Removing the figure, he argues, strips away the viewer's usual entry point and lets landscape operate on its own terms rather than being humanized. The paintings hold contradictions — light and dark, calm and energy, familiar and alien — without resolving them, aiming for something between memory and invention.
