Showing posts with label land art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label land art. Show all posts

May 15 - Sculpt the World!

Posted on May 15, 2020

I love land art!

Land artists use natural materials to make large-scale art pieces - almost always TEMPORARY art pieces. 

Photos of their work almost always delights me, and I would be exponentially more delighted if I were ever lucky enough to actually stumble onto a piece of land art someday!

One of my new faves in the annals of land artists is Welsh artist Jon Foreman. Today is the anniversary of his first Instagram post, in 2014. 

Foreman uses the name Sculpt the World. Here are some great pieces from his collection: 









Not EVERY piece is circular or spiral in shape:



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January 5 - Happy Birthday, Nikolay Polissky

Posted on January 5, 2020

Born on this date in 1957 in Moscow (then the capital of the Soviet Union, now the capital of Russia), Nikolay Polissky has a lot of land on which he can create his enormous art projects. After all, Russia is the largest nation in the world, and quite a lot of it is "rural" rather than crowded cities.
This population density map of Russia shows how much land is only thinly settled!




Polissky creates handcrafted structures using the area's residents and local materials - everything from tree trunks and branches to wooden tables! Everywhere he creates one of his monumental works, he reactivates a village that had been slowly shrinking - at least for a while transforming the region into a place where artists and visitors want to go.


Note that Polissky uses local folks to help build his huge sculptures.

Also, Polissky's work has become a part of the largest land-art festival in Russia, a festival called Archstoryanie.

Land art is defined as art that is made in the landscape, by either sculpting the land itself or by making structures on the land using natural materials from that land. If you carve a marble statue in your artist's studio and then have it erected in a particular landscape - that's a sculpture, sure; it's art, of course; but it's not land art.

Anyway, Polissky's pieces ARE land art! Enjoy!




This article has loads more very interesting photos of Polissky's works.




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September 15 - Submersion and Immersion

Posted on September 15, 2019

This is French artist Olivier de Sepibus.








He creates huge art pieces:



This sort of land art speaks to humanity's place in the environment and humanity's relationship with natural materials.

Sepibus likes the idea that viewers can be inside the art piece - submerged into the art, immersed in the art...



This is the anniversary of the Submersion and Immersion installation in an arboretum in France, in 2009.

I love the series of cubes Sepibus created and documented with photography:

cold cube

 hot cube



wood cube in the woods

rock cube in rocky mountains


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