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Permanent collection

Untitled 2005 Ave Ovo 2005 Il Cielo di San Gennaro 2005 Untitled 2005 Untitled 2005 Wild Boy and Puppy 1988 Dark brother 2005 Untitled 2005 Untitled 2005 Spirits 2005 1995 - 2005 Giuditta ed Oloferne 2005 10,000 Lines 2005 Untitled 2006 Horse 2006

RICHARD LONG

Line of Chance

2005

 

 

 

 

Richard Long’s art develops around a quest for balance and a fusion between nature in the “first” state and man’s abstract, primordial geometrical representations. Culture and nature, in their most absolute, universal, schematic and synthetic form. The natural world with the total absence of man together with the ancestral configurations of man’s will and his capacity to communicate and to mark his own vision and his own presence of the reality on this planet, his propensity for reorganising it according to mathematical rules. A circle assembled with stones found in the desert or a line obtained by stamping on grass or snow, present and perpetuate through a universally recognisable form the innate desire to unite
with nature and the innate instinct to abstract and schematize reality.
Long has always taken long solitary journeys on foot through landscapes, crossing deserts and meadows, forests and glaciers at all latitudes. The action of walking has allowed him to broaden the borders of the idea and the practice of sculpture which, in his work, through the potentiality of being deconstructed in space and in time, becomes concrete both around the concept of place and the concept of material and of form. In the installation for the MADRE a primordial element like mud, the union of water and earth, distributed horizontally on the walls of the room imparts its archaic identity constituting, at one and the same time, the material and the message of the work.