#land art
Fujiko Nakaya
fujiko nakaya hovers FOGSCAPE #47412 at the sapporo art museum
the veil of fog decodes its surroundings: borders between internal and external areas disappear and the surrounding site becomes fragmented into structural splinters.
as the veil of ephemeral matter moves throughout the space, it begins to decode its surroundings
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architizer said:What would NYC’s low-income red-brick housing would look like with a neon paint job? Here’s a rendering by Dutch artists Haas&Hahn, who create large-scale murals in Brazil’s favelas. More over here.
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Ana Mendieta
image from:
http://artgrounded.blogspot.fr/2013/02/earth-blood-and-feathers-ancient.html
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Hayward Gallery Exhibition Trailer: Ana Mendieta, Traces
Ana Mendieta, Artwork from Silueta Series - Sorry couldn’t find if it had a title or or the date but I wanted to include it as it’s a beautiful work! If anyone knows it feel free to add it on :)
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Ana Mendieta, Untitled, Silueta Series, 1979, Super 8, from the Estate of Ana Mendieta, New York
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A 3,400-year-old city emerges from the Tigris River (2022)
The settlement emerged from the waters of the Mosul reservoir early this year as water levels fell rapidly due to extreme drought in Iraq. The extensive city with a palace and several large buildings could be ancient Zakhiku – believed to have been an important centre in the Mittani Empire (ca. 1550-1350 BC)
A 3400-year-old city emerges from the Tigris River – ScienceDaily
The Heidelberg Project - House of Soul, installation in Detroit by Tyree Guyton, 1986
Bodmin Jail Hotel in Cornwall by Twelve Architects, Scarlett’s Well Rd, Bodmin (GB)
Bodmin Jail Hotel in Cornwall von Twelve Architects (detail.de)
The names of minerals and the minerals themselves do not differ from each other, because at the bottom of both the material and the print is the beginning of an abysmal number of fissures. Words and rocks contain a language that follows a syntax of splits and ruptures. Look at any word long enough and you will see it open up into a series of faults, into a terrain of particles each containing its own void. This discomforting language of fragmentation offers no easy gestalt solution; the certainties of didactic discourse are hurled into the erosion of the poetic principle. Poetry being forever lost must submit to its own vacuity; it is somehow a product of exhaustion rather than creation. Poetry is always a dying language but never a dead language.
—Robert Smithson,A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Proposals
Michael Heizer. Isolated Mass/ Circumflex (#2). 1968. Excavation in playa surface. Impermanent installation at Massacre Dry Lake, Vya, Nevada.
“This was the ninth and last of a series of Nevada Depressions that Heizer carved out of desert basins between June and September 1968. The linear trench loops around a circular segment of earth, which constitutes the “isolated mass.”
From “Designing the earth: the human impulse to shape nature” by David Bourdon.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CaFmt6YNaEp/?utm_medium=tumblr
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Andy Goldsworthy’s Ice and Snow Ephemeral Sculptures
Andy Goldsworthy’s Ice and Snow Ephemeral Sculptures
Tree Mountain — A Living Time Capsule — 11,000 Trees, 11,000 People, 400 Years by Agnes Denes, located in Ylöjärvi, Finland, 1992-96.
[…] Ms. Denes is no stranger to projects that, on paper, would appear unrealizable. In the mid-1990s, she built a mountain in Finland, Tree Mountain — A Living Time Capsule creating a virgin forest sponsored by the United Nations Environment Program and the Finnish Ministry of the Environment that will be protected for 400 years. (“Other people move mountains, I build them,” she quipped, taking a shot at artist Francis Alÿs’s famous 2002 performance piece When Faith Moves Mountains,in which 500 Peruvian volunteers used shovels to shift a sand dune over a few inches.) […]
“I do very large projects because there’s no sense doing little things in the corner to teach the world what needs to be done,” […]She listens intently, training her large dark eyes on you like a hawk deciding whether you’d make a good meal. But she doesn’t mind doing all the talking, especially when it concerns her long list of achievements.
“That doesn’t really interest you,” she said with a coy smile after indulging questions about the dunes. “You want to know other things about me. You want to know why I get comparisons to Lenny.” Lenny? “Leonardo da Vinci.” She gets such comparisons largely because of her passion for science.The 11,000 trees on her Finnish mountain, for instance, were not planted haphazardly. Seen from above, they create a dizzying mathematical pattern that Ms. Denes devised using the golden ratio and the spiraling seeds at the centers of sunflowers. […]
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