テート・ギャラリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (テート・ギャラリーInstagram)「Spooky or beautiful? 🌲 'Cross in the Wilderness' 2003–4 is a large oil painting of a gloomy woodland by British artist Ged Quinn. In the background we see an imposing cluster of tall fir trees, their tips extending towards a yellow-grey, clouded sky. The density of the trees gives the impression that they mark the edge of a deep forest, since only blackness can be seen between their spindly trunks. In the foreground and mid-ground is a clearing in which a building is dwarfed by the forest. At first this appears to be a romantic woodscape, but then we learn that the building at the centre of the image represents Spandau Prison in Berlin, a former concentration camp. The prison was used during the Nuremberg Trials of 1945–6 to hold Nazi war criminals, seven of whom were subsequently imprisoned there. Look closely and the building is surrounded by a mass of barbed wire that extends outwards in all directions, linking the foreground to the forest via a spiky trail. The scene is sinister, but there is a fantastical element to the painting evoked by the exaggerated miniature scale of the prison and the curling, foliage-like appearance of the barbed wire. Its intense detail and ghostly past makes it hard to look away. 🖼️ Ged Quinn, Cross in the Wilderness 2003–4, Tate collection」10月29日 0時36分