Ends of the Earth
dal 26/5/2012 al 2/9/2012
Segnalato da
26/5/2012
Ends of the Earth
MOCA at the Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles
Land Art to 1974. A large-scale, historical-thematic exhibition
Land Art to 1974, the first large-scale, historical-thematic exhibition to deal broadly with Land art. Capturing the simultaneous impulse emergent in the 1960s to use the earth as an artistic medium and to locate works in remote sites far from familiar art contexts, the exhibition will highlight the early years of untested artistic experimentations and conclude in the mid-1970s before Land art became a fully institutionalized category. Rather than romanticizing notions such as "return to nature" or "escape from culture," the exhibition will provide a comprehensive overview to reveal the complexity of the movement's social and political engagement with the historical conditions of its time. "Ends of the Earth" is a revisionist art historical exhibition, but also a cultural specimen of the present, embodying the tensions and contradictions that exist in the uneasy reckoning between vanguard art of the 1960s and '70s and its institutionalization and historicization in 2012. (Image: Richard Long, A Line the Length of a Straight Walk from the Bottom to the Top of Silbury Hill, 1970, natural white china clay, installation view, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1971, courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York, C 2012 Artists Rights Society, New York / DACS, London)