Groepsportret van een legendarische omgeving 1975

Harrie Gerritz made this etching, Groepsportret van een legendarische omgeving, in 1992. I can imagine him bent over a plate, carefully scratching lines to build up these pale, quiet shapes. There's a sense of geometry mixed with a dreamlike quality. It looks like a landscape, but not quite. More like a memory of one. I think Gerritz is asking, how do we capture a place? Not just what it looks like, but how it feels? I wonder if he was thinking about other artists who've tried to do the same thing, like Mondrian and his early landscapes. Did they influence the way he chose to make marks here? That little green line makes me smile - it really pops. It’s a landscape, but it's also an abstraction. It's like he’s inviting us to see the world in a new way, not just as it is, but as it could be.