Landscapes/ volume 75

For as long as humankind has created, the landscape has stood as both muse and mirror. From the first cave markings to the most contemporary digital collage, artists have returned, time and again, to the land—not only as a subject, but as a language through which to articulate memory, belonging, loss, and renewal. In this seventy-fifth special edition of our magazine, dedicated entirely to Landscapes, we bring together a constellation of international voices whose practices reveal just how inexhaustible this theme remains.

To speak of landscapes is to speak of perspective. Some of the artists featured here turn their gaze outward, mapping vast horizons in oil, print, or lens. Others turn inward, transforming the landscape into metaphor, where mountains become psychological terrains and rivers carry histories untold. The works collected in these pages move fluidly between painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, collage, and mixed media. They demonstrate not a singular definition of “landscape,” but a field of overlapping visions—ecological, political, intimate, and imagined.

The editorial team has worked closely with each contributor to highlight not only their works but also their voices. Alongside the visual pieces, readers will encounter biographies, artist statements, and personalised interviews, offering a glimpse into the motivations, processes, and lived experiences that shape these practices. What emerges is not simply an exhibition in print, but a dialogue across borders and disciplines, a chorus of reflections on how we inhabit, interpret, and reshape our surroundings.

This volume is also a milestone in its own right. To reach our seventy-fifth edition is to recognise the resilience of artists who continue to reimagine the world through their craft, and the readers who engage deeply with these interpretations. It reminds us that art remains one of the most vital ways to chart the shifting contours of our planet—its beauty, its fragility, its absurdities, and its transformations.

As you turn these pages, you are invited not only to look, but to wander. Trace the lines of a coastline as if they were your own memories. Follow the fragments of a torn collage as if they were paths through a forgotten city. Stand before a painted horizon and feel the stillness, or the urgency, of our shared time. In this collection, landscapes are not passive views, but active encounters—challenges, invitations, and sometimes warnings.

We hope this edition inspires you to reconsider your own landscapes, both external and internal, familiar and foreign. To see them anew, to listen to their silences, and perhaps to answer back through your own creative gestures.