This video is in Russian language.
In the late 1960s, painter and sculptor Michael Heizer (b. 1944) left New York for the deserts of California and Nevada, where he was one of the first to create large-scale works of Land art that go far beyond the museum space. He has displaced thousands of tons of earth in dry lakes, or rock in the Nevada desert, digging organic trenches to create ‘negative sculptures,’ and creating works for public buildings. Since the 1990s, he has focused on City, a massive complex in the desert of Lincoln County.
The works of British pioneer of Land art, Richard Long (b. 1945) take the form of walking in the landscape. Sometimes he creates sculptures from stones or sticks along the way, which he documents with photographs. He describes his work as: "Art about mobility, lightness and freedom. Simple creative acts of walking and marking about place, locality, time, distance and measurement. Works using raw materials and my human scale in the reality of landscapes.”
6 апр 2015
