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6/9/2007

Maya Lin

Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis

Systematic Landscapes

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis is proud to present a major exhibition of new sculptures, drawings, and installations by renowned artist Maya Lin. In 1981, Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial dramatically changed the language and form of commemorative sculpture by infusing minimalist design with the emotional charge of memory. Her subsequent work, whether monument, sculpture, design object, or building, is equally characterized by its harmony of message and material. In recent years, Lin has focused on a reconsideration of landscape in a time of ecological tension and technological change. This new body of work engages the issue of our subtle and fragile connection to the environment in timely and poetic ways.

Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes is an exploration of how we see – or come to understand – landscape in a crucial time. Our current relationship to landscape is extended, condensed, distorted and mapped via satellite photography, sonar scanning and digital manipulation. Furthermore, in virtual space the natural world can be convincingly created and physically engaged. In her book Boundaries (2000) Lin asks: “What is landscape art at the beginning of the twenty-first century? What is our relationship to nature?” The works in this exhibition provide her initial answer to this question by considering how we “see and experience landscape.”

Works included in the exhibition demonstrate how our perception of landscape is altered by our vantage point and mode of perception. In the context of the largest works we can walk under, upon, and through invented and specific landscapes that attune us to our physical, psychological, and intellectual experience of the environment. Lin describes the smaller works in the exhibition as ones “made by hand that explore aspects of my various environmental works, transform rivers into a positive object or architectural walls into a new earth.”

Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes is organized by The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington in Seattle and curated by its director Richard Andrews. The St. Louis installation is curated by Paul Ha, Director of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.

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