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Concentrations 9: Richard Long
March 31 - May 20
A sculpture by British artist Richard Long will be in-
stalled in a singular bay of the sculpture garden as part of
the Dallas Museums Concentration series. Since the mid-
sixties Richard Long has been creating works of art that
relate to the physical landscape, the earth itself. Long
views himself as a traveller through the land whose sculp-
ture and photo-documentation express the simplicity; in-
tegrity and timelessness of the places he visits. The
majority of his works are based on an archetypal formal
vocabulary consisting of straight lines, circles, spirals and
squares - the essential markings contained on the earth's
surface. The direct and uncomplicated geometry of his
forms asserts its origin in human activity and immediately
stimulates the viewer to consider the interaction that took
place between artist and environment.
The work installed in Dallas consists of 168 red slate
stones native to the lower Hudson Valley in New York.
Together these stones form a continuous line 36 feet in
length and 6/2 feet wide. The regularity of the line con-
trasts sharply with the seemingly randomly placed indi-
vidual stones, thus there is a continuing interchange
between the rigidity of man-made measurement and the
grace of natural form.In 1982 Richard Long said of his art, "The source of my
work is nature. I use it with respect and freedom. I use
materials, ideas, movement and time to express a whole
view of my art in the world.
"I am an artist who makes walks. A walk defines the
form of the land in space and time beyond the scale of
sculpture or the fixed image. Some of my walks are
formal (straight, circular, rhythmic) almost ritualised. I
have climbed around mountains instead of to the top, I
have used riverbeds as footpaths. I have made walks
about slowness, stones, or water. I have made walks
within a place as opposed to a linear journey; walking
without travelling... my art is the essence of my experi-
ence, not a representation of it."
Richard Long was born in 1945 in Bristol, England,
where he continues to live and work. He has had major
solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New
York, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the White-
chapel Gallery in London and the Scottish National Gal-
lery of Modern Art in Edinburgh.
Sue Graze
Curator of Art Contemporary
Richard L.ong
Red Slate Line II, 1982
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