Guy Moreton | Works | 2012 | Kurt Schwitters

KS01, The Orchard, Langdale 2012 c-print. 78 x 102 cm KS02, The Wilderness, Langdale 2012 c-print. 78 x 102 cm KS03, The Orchard, Langdale 2012 silver gelatin print KS04, Untitled, Langdale, 2013 silver gelatin print KS05, Untitled, Langdale, 2013 silver gelatin print KS06, Untitled, Langdale, 2013 silver gelatin print KS07, Untitled, Langdale 2013 silver gelatin print

Kurt Schwitters

These large scale photographic works were presented in the solo exhibition Unrecounted in 2012, and Wall to Wall at The Hatton Gallery Newcastle, in 2014, and observe the winter landscape and overgrown apple orchard of the Cylinders estate in Elterwater, in the English Lake District where Kurt Schwitters spent his final years working on his fourth and last Merzbau before his death in 1948. Schwitters had previously lived and worked in Lysaker and the island of Hjertøya in Norway, almost crossing paths with the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 –1951), who lived on and off in Skjolden at the inner end of the Sognefjord where – like Schwitters – he found 'an ideal place in which to work'.