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2016

Richard LONG

Mixed media

104 x 144,5 x 6 cm

Upon his entering the Saint Martin’s School of London, where he studied from 1966 to 1968, British artist Richard Long turned to a space and a subject that had been forsaken at the time, namely landscape. Indeed he is a walking, surveying, trekking and territory sculpting artist. The chronological concomitance brought art history to categorize Richard Long as a land artist. It is true that the artist’s interventions in the landscape are not without presenting a few similarities with this mostly American movement, although he denies it: “My work is the antithesis of what is called American land art […] Walking in the Himalayas is a way of touching the earth with more lightness […] and this requires a more physical personal engagement than an artist who plans an important earthwork later realized by bulldozers.”

Richard LONG

Grande-Bretagne

Born in 1945

Long lives and works in the UK. He studied at the Central Saint Martins art school in London.

He has been nominated for the Turner Prize four times, winning in 1989. He represented the UK at the Venice Biennale in 1976. He also won the Praemium Imperiale Prize for sculpture in Japan in 2009.

Richard Long is without a doubt the most eminent land artist in the UK. His monumental sculptures come in the form of immense lines, piles of earth, circles or paths of rocks or stones laid in a sublime natural setting.

Long’s portfolio is incredibly poetic and conceptual, often simply described as the summation of the artist's steps during long, solitary walks, with the resulting sculptures, paintings, and photographs reflecting this artist's visceral connection with nature. Long’s relationship with the earth and soil is expressed through the clay and mud used in the two works featured here.