Daniel Mangin

Sunrise on Ganymede

Open your mind series

France

2022

Oil on canvas

81x100 cm

Artist about this artwork Historically, we find landscapes that are realistic (the Impressionists), imaginary (Dali, Tanguy), and conceptual (Ernst). Here, it's an invented realistic landscape. It's impossible to verify this on site. The appearance of the sun is due to magnification and diffraction caused by the atmosphere, just as colors are due to the influence of surrounding gases. We'll be able to verify these peculiarities once we colonize this satellite, but that won't happen anytime soon.