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Exhibition: “Ends of the Earth. Land Art to 1974”
11 October 2012 to 20 January 2013
Haus der Kunst, Prinzregentenstrasse 1, 80538 Munich
www.hausderkunst.deCatalogue: Ends of the Earth. Land Art to 1974, edited by Philipp Kaiser and Miwon Kwon, 264 pages, Prestel Publishers 2012, 49,95 Euro
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ENDS OF THE EARTH
Land Art to 1974
Text: Sandra Hofmeister
There was a time when artists created lightning fields and giant stone spirals, placed oversized installations and massive structures in salt lakes and deserts. But it is Hans Haacke’s Grass Grows from 1969, a small hillock of meadow, that is at the entrance to the Haus der Kunst in Munich and begins the exhibition Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974. With nearly 200 works by more than 100 artists, the show curated by Philipp Kaiser, is a comprehensive overview of an artistic position that rejected the institutional limits of the art system. From the mid-1970s onwards, the common ground of Land Art began to diverge in distinct movements such as conceptual art, happenings, performances, and Arte Povera. Whether experimenting with earth or stones, investigating regional landscapes or the globe itself, artists like Richard Long and the neo avant-garde group Superstudio understood the planet as their medium and made their work part of it. Photographs and models, installations and videos produced by the artists are all displayed in the exhibition. The most astonishing aspect of the curators’ view is the plurality of locations and mindsets. Thus the show makes evident that Land Art was not only a North American but an international phenomenon, with protagonists all over the world.
Heinz Mack: “Tele-Mack”, film still, 1968. (Image courtesy Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland GmbH and Mack Archive, © 2012 Artists Rights Society, New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn)
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