Kovats’ work incorporates the intricate representation of landscape features, using the rhetoric of scientific illustration and suggesting a depiction of ‘true’ nature. This intention is belied by the miniature scale and the truncating of the landscape into a section, framed by the gallery wall or apparently cropped into a geometric form. Peninsulais a strange, hybrid form – part white minimalist sculpture, part geological model of a peninsula and rock formation. Derived from landscape motifs in religious painting and the kitsch replicas of grottos and caves, sites of miracles and apparitions, these landscape forms are meticulous renditions of natural architectural features, deliberately constructed and displayed to make evident the artifice.

Landscape, The British Council 2000