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Land Marks, an exhibition of 19 works from the
collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, surveys the ways in which
artists have made marks on the earth, or created images from marks made
by humans on it. In the late 1960s, with the emergence of Land Art,
artists began making works that were bound inextricably to their sites.
These "Earthworks” artists worked on location and used the earth itself
as canvas or sculptural material; they created outdoor gestures in what
were often far-flung corners of the world and were, in sweep, both
anti-monumental and epic. Because their art evaded the traditional
progression from cloistered studios to rarified galleries and museums,
these artists were often dependent on photography and mass media to
communicate the very existence of their work.
The dissolution of boundaries—between object and context, and among
different media—was a hallmark of the countercultural ethos in art at
the time in which many of the artists featured in the exhibition were
working. This went hand in hand with the dawning ecological movement,
which maintained that our future existence is directly dependent on how
we use and interact with our natural environment in the present. While
the Earthworks artists traced, imprinted, and gauged the terrain to
suggest vast sweeps of time at the edges of human history and beyond,
photographers of a more traditional bent studied traces of past activity
for previous cycles of expansion, exploitation, and exhaustion of the
environment. Their shared concern suggests that art may provide the best
vantage point from which to comprehend fully the inextricably bound
destinies of the planet and ourselves.
Highlights of the exhibition include Robert Smithson’s Bingham Copper Mining Pit—Utah / Reclamation Project
(1973), one of several unexecuted land-reclamation projects he proposed
in the two years before his untimely death in a plane crash at age 35;
two Anselm Kiefer watercolors shown with his still-controversial photo
essay "Occupations 1969” as it appeared in a 1975 issue of the German
art magazine Interfunktionen; Christo’s Running Fence, Project for Sonoma County and Marin County, State of California (1975); and an important new acquisition, Michelle Stuart’s polyptych of frottage drawings, Scanning Sequence
(1969-1970). Works by Huma Bhabha, Matthew Brandt, Richard Long, Ana
Mendieta, Vik Muniz, Dennis Oppenheim, and Mark Ruwedel are also
featured in the exhibition.
Land Marks is organized by Doug Eklund, Associate Curator
in the Department of Photographs, and Anne Strauss, Associate Curator in
the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, at The Metropolitan
Museum of Art.
The Metropolitan Museum’s website will feature the exhibition (www.metmuseum.org).
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