Richard Long
dal 2/1/2006 al 9/2/2006
Segnalato da
2/1/2006
Richard Long
Haunch of Venison Yard, London
The time of space is a photograph of a stone circle, and measures the time between the making and the un-making of this sculpture during two walks on Mount Parnassus in Greece. On the top floor of the gallery two new large mud works on the walls demonstrate directly the simple, physical and powerful engagement that is a primary characteristic of all artist's work, whether near or far.
The time of space
Richard Long (born Bristol, 1945) is internationally acknowledged as a key figure
in the development of post-war art, and his contribution has been recognised by
numerous honours, including representing Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1976
and winning the Turner Prize in 1989. The time of space is Richard Long's
second exhibition at Haunch of Venison, and will present new and previously
unseen works made during the past ten years.
Since the mid-sixties Long has taken a radical approach to nature by expanding
the potential scale of art through the medium of walking in the landscape. This
exhibition reflects the global range of his work, from the Sahara to Scotland to
Mongolia. Photographs and text works record wilderness and rural walks which
articulate different ideas about measurement, or rivers, or material relationships.
Some walks are marked by sculptures made along the way, traces of his passage.
These methods explore the boundaries and freedom of how and where art can
be made. They engage the viewer imaginatively with work that is often distant
in both time and space.
Burlington Northern (2003), records a six day journey by kayak down
the Columbia River in Oregon. The text work Ocean to River (2005), is a
walk across France which connects the beginning and end of the walk by
carrying and pouring Atlantic water into the Rhone.
The time of space (1999),
is a photograph of a stone circle, and measures the time between the making and
the un-making of this sculpture during two walks on Mount Parnassus in Greece.
On the top floor of the gallery two new large mud works on the walls demonstrate
directly the simple, physical and powerful engagement that is a primary
characteristic of all Richard Long's work, whether near or far.
Richard Long studied at the West of England College of Art in Bristol, and
St. Martin's School of Art in London. Since his first one-man show in 1968
at Konrad Fischer in Dusseldorf, Long has had over 200 solo exhibitions
worldwide, including a retrospective at the Hayward Gallery, London in 1991.
He will present The path is the place is the line, from January 21 to
April 25, 2006 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. A new artist's
book, Dartmoor, will be published to coincide with The time of space.
Opening: January 3
Haunch of Venison
6 Haunch of Venison Yard - London