If there is such a thing as rediscovery, then perhaps this retrospective of works by Peter Hutchinson, at the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, along with the accompanying catalogue, constitutes one of the most important of the past few decades.

Involved as he was in establishing Earth Art, the photographic documents of his early works beautifully convey the formal principles of their origins. These principles can be encompassed by the terms scientific and emblematic and correspondingly exude that very coolness associated with the American expressive camp behaviour. The sudden change towards a romantic attitude, inherent in this ideology, can be studied above all, in the work of Peter Hutchinson.

These works, as well as the collages, photographs, and objects from the past 20 years, have led to an extension of Earth Art into utopian and ecological realms. Ultimately, the reference to 'dreamed paradises' is indicative of the fact that Hutchinson’s works inhabit a place where art and the experience of nature coincide.