Arcadian Landscapes

Solo Exhibition

Dusty Deco Showroom

Carrer de les Caputxines 11

Palma de Mallorca

9 April – 10 May 2026

Curated by The Art Bystander

In Nicolas Poussin’s Et in Arcadia Ego, shepherds pause before a tomb set in an ideal landscape. Paradise contains an interruption; even here, the end is present.

Robert Möllard’s ARCADIAN LANDSCAPES begins with a substitution. He rewrites the phrase as “Et in Arcade Ego.” The tomb becomes an arcade machine. Stone gives way to play—bright, ordinary, magnetic—and the pastoral and the electrical feel like versions of the same place: worlds entered, absorbed, and then lost to time.

Arcadia and arcade are both “elsewhere.” The arcade: the looped instruction that turns pleasure into a logic of time, insert coin to continue.

In Möllard’s hands, that phrase becomes a meditation. Not nostalgia, not escapism: a human attempt to buy a little more duration; to postpone; to hold wonder in place for one more round.

What results is not a picture of paradise, but its mechanism: how it is imagined, how it vanishes, and how it persists, just out of reach, just beyond the frame.

— Roland-Philippe Kretzschmar