Everyone from the Women's Institute to the far right has claimed William Blake's Jerusalem for themselves, but in his own work Wallinger reminds us of Blake's radicalism; he has used the word Jerusalem as if it were revolutionary graffiti, spraying it over his own rendering of a painting by George Stubbs.
The tactile manipulation of paint may hearken to medieval procedures, when mimetic effects of rendering informed a painting's surface.
In 1803, the French government offered to sell the Louisiana territory (which included New Orleans, rendered here in a painting from that period) to the United States for about 4 cents an acre.
The idea was to render the surface of a painting more vibrant, to maximize the brilliance of color.
Riehn, in describing the arrangement, compared the effect to a painting rendered as a woodcut.
They've then covered this with a plaster render and painted it a dark, drying-blood red.
This is especially the case in the large "Study for a Painting" from 2002, a rendering of a small version of a painting from his Catenary series.
On it hangs a painting by Jonathan Monk that inserts Walter De Maria's "Lightning Field" into a painting by Jack Goldstein, rendered in Mr. Goldstein's finicky realist style.
"The execution usually started with a photo shoot for references, then I'd work from different photographs and my imagination to render the painting.
They are set against a painted rendering of craggy Alps, of the sort in which Oberammergau itself is nestled, part of a recurrent motif of German Romanticism that pervades the installation.
