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Eric Lobbecke's upcoming exhibition at NG Art Gallery, Conversations with Nature, draws upon his recent trip to Poland where the artist visited the castle from which his father was banished during World War II. "The Russians threw my dad out of it, so he fled with his family to Vienna." Lobbecke goes on to explain, "it was interesting because the façade of it was beautiful, but around the back all the sheds and barns were crumbling under the pressure of the natural world. This Imperial artefact...more