#landart by d master – different way of feeling d #nature

hello, hi there, it’s been 12 years since I first wrote about Andy Goldsworthy here. quite long, isn’t it? this blog has been around for a long time, d problem is that u may have forgotten is that my last post here was eight years ago! 🙂

iHope that u`re doing well all these years and that there are still active readers among those who were here with me a decade ago. Let’s enjoy together the works of the fascinating creators of #landart – Andy Goldsworthy.

:Andy Goldsworthy has been present on d world #art scene for so many years for a reason, he is one of d best land art artists who has made a shift in d experience of art with his works. it showed a symbiosis between d refined and the natural, d organic & pure holy artistic, precise touch. in harmony with d existing, he creates pieces of transcendent balance with d extraterrestrial, d cosmic.

• although d works/ masterpieces are subject to decay, transient, with a shelf life, he creates an excellence that melts with d beauty of d moment. as he himself says: “The biggest failure is to make a work that is safe, that doesn’t take a risk. I’m taking big risks with no safety net.”

Andy Goldsworthy is one of the world’s most renowned site-specific artists. In 2005, Smithsonian Magazine named him one of 35 people “who made a difference”, saying that he uses “nature as his canvas [to create] work of transcendent beauty.”

Born in 1956, Goldsworthy spent his childhood in Yorkshire, England. His work has been featured in a diverse array of open air spaces from the Yorkshire Dales to the North Pole and the Australian Outback. His works in the Bay Area include Stone River at Stanford University and Drawn Stone at the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park. Goldsworthy draws his inspiration from place and creates art from the materials found close at hand, such as twigs, leaves, stones, snow, and ice, striving “to make connections between what we call nature and what we call man-made.”

regardless of whether he works with stones, branches, ice, three-dimensional, with reflection, on d ground, in water or in d air, he creates meditative spaces that change d viewer’s attention depending on the psychological articulation. his famous installations like: Spire, Wood Line, Tree Fall, and Earth Wall – created here between 2008 and 2014, declared him as a leader in his discipline/ category, even wider.

amazing, isn’t it? do u like it? :u can leave ur comments below or on :d white b[l]og ::: #facebook page

:news from Ai Weiwei!

New masterpiece comes from d famous controvert, contemporary, conceptual artist & activist from China, Ai Weiwei. The project name is 1000 Bicycles and that what we can see in this art piece really are 1000 bikes. The shocking thing in this art installation is that he is doing a geometrical mandala with d form that d bikes had. We know that d artist already have experience with d bicycle as form and use to make few small installations with few bikes but this one is massive, big & stunning. ..and was made without his presence.

The new exhibition will be open at Taipei’s Fine Arts Museum on Saturday. The regular thing that we know in advance is that he’ll not be there cause he’s still not allowed to leave Beijing. The outspoken artist is currently confined to Beijing. (The Chinese government says his previous two-month detainment was for tax evasion charges though many believe it was for his openly critical stance against their policies.) The exhibit titled “Ai Weiwei, Absent” will feature 21 works includes photographs, 12 outsize bronze heads representing the Chinese zodiac, and this gargantuan installation, above, which consists of 1,000 bicycles piled in layers. It’s meant to reflect Ai’s perception of the rapid pace of Chinese social change.

Interestingly, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum was given instructions on how to mount it through daily email exchanges with the artist since he could not be present.

The exhibition runs from October 29, 2011 to January 29, 2012.

The whole exhibition is titled “Absent” and Ai says his personal absence from the museum will give the exhibit special meaning. As he says for d topic and for d exhibit d absence “is a part of my art, my portfolio and my cultural state.”