Guardian obituary of the Norwegian-Swedish painter of the sublime and ecosystem collapse
Christopher Radlund -who died by his own hand in October 2022- profoundly inspired the Studio's work and thought through his melancholic vision of a timless but wholly contemporary natural world engaged in an awkward, critical dialogue with the human. Radlund created a new vision of the eco-crisis sublime, rooted deep in tradition but indivisible from the particular context in which he lived in early 21st-century Scandinavia. A longterm sparring partner on questions of classicism, landscape and technology, he contributed four paintings as frontispieces to Andrew Todd's 2016 book 'Common Sense,' along with one original painting of the Farnsworth House in flood commissioned specially for the volume.
Andrew Todd wrote his obituary for The Guardian here.


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