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Artist or Maker: RICHARD LONG
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Provenance: Galerie Tschudi, Glarus
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Exhibited: Zuoz, Galerie Tschudi, Richard Long, 2002
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Notes: Nature has always been recorded by artists, from pre-historic cave paintings to 20th century landscape photography. I too wanted to make nature the subject of my work, but in new ways. I started working outside using materials like grass and this evolved into the idea of making a sculpture by walking. Walking itself has a cultural history,from Pilgrims to the wandering Japanese poets, the English Romantics and contemporary long-distance walkers. I consider my landscape sculptures inhabit the rich territory between two ideological positions,namely that of making ‘monuments' or conversely, of ‘leaving only footprints'. Over the years these sculptures have explored some of the variables of transience, permanence, visibility or recognition. A sculpture may be moved, dispersed, carried. Stones can be used as markers of time or distance, or exist as parts of a huge, yet anonymous, sculpture. On a mountain walk a sculpture could be made above the clouds, perhaps in a remote region, bringing an imaginative freedom about how, or where, art can be made in the world.(Richard Long, 2000, taken from www.richardlong.org)
