Clive van den BergUnsettled Air VIII, 2025
Oil on canvas
Work: 102 x 76 x 3 cm (40.2 x 29.9 x 1.2 in.)
‘Unsettled Air VIII’ continues Clive van den Berg’s exploration of the atmosphere as a repository for memory and emotion. In this series, the artist turns his gaze skyward, tracing the ephemeral qualities of air, vapour, and dust as metaphors for the unseen forces that shape our inner and outer worlds. The painting captures the tension between weight and weightlessness where clouds are tinted with the residue of the earth, and dust, once grounded, is swept into suspension. This act of transference becomes a gesture of remembrance, suggesting that what rises into the air carries with it the trace of what has been.
