Nine public works by our artists in the autumnal landscape

Over the past 25 years, we are pleased to have realized numerous large-scale art projects and sculptures by our artists made accessible to a public audience. Here is a small selection of their works in the season's foliage accompanied by texts from the institutions.

ANDY GOLDSWORTHY
Walking Wall (2019)
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Kansas City, Missouri

"Andy Goldsworthy built Walking Wall at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City in 2019. Over a period of five installments, the wall literally moved from the east part of the museum to its final resting place inside and outside the Bloch Building lenses. The stone wall  fulfills Goldsworthy’s long-held vision of creating a wall that inches its way through a place. Walking Wall moved from a five-acre piece of land east of the museum, onto the museum campus, and ultimately into the museum, drawing its way through the museum’s campus."

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ANDY GOLDSWORTHY
Watershed (2019)
DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
Lincoln, Massachusetts

“Watershed is composed of a nine-by-fifteen-foot granite stone structure, partially-embedded in the slope of deCordova’s pond-side hill. The work is built in a vernacular style, echoing stone walls and structures found throughout New England, using local materials and the expert assistance of Goldsworthy’s team of British wallers. On the structure’s interior rear wall, stonework radiates in concentric circles from a drain outlet centered in the wall-a powerful evocation of water’s energy and pattern. In heavy rain, water runoff from deCordova’s upper parking lot is channeled underground to pour from the outlet in the sculpture’s rear wall, giving form to the normally hidden course of groundwater.”

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ANDY GOLDSWORTHY
Storm King Wall (1997–98)
Storm King Art Center
Orange County, New York

“Storm King Wall-Andy Goldsworthy’s first museum commission for a permanent work in the United States and his largest single installation to date-exemplifies his nature-based methodology, which includes building this and other dry stone walls that draw on British agricultural tradition. Storm King Wall was originally imagined as a 750-foot-long dry stone wall snaking through the woods, but when it reached its planned endpoint, at the foot of a large oak tree, it seemed only natural to the artist for the wall to continue downhill to a nearby pond. Soon after the wall’s trajectory was extended again; it now emerges from the other side of the pond and continues uphill to Storm King’s western boundary at the New York State Thruway-totaling 2,278 feet overall.”

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ALFREDO JAAR
The Garden of Good and Evil (2017)
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Wakefield, United Kingdom

"This powerful work by Alfredo Jaar, who is regarded as one of the world’s most politically engaging artists, draws attention to a difficult and challenging subject. A number of steel cells, just large enough to house a standing or crouched body, represent ‘black sites’, the secret detention facilities operated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and used to interrogate suspects. Known sites include Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, as well as locations in Romania, Italy, Poland, Lithuania, Thailand, Kenya and Egypt."

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JAUME PLENSA
Isabella (2014)
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati, Ohio

"As a sculptor, Jaume Plensa worked intensively with language and light before moving decisively into figural work. Isabella looks inward, the girl’s peaceful features lifting us upward even as the monumental scale of this 6-ton portrait anchors it to the ground."

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JAUME PLENSA
Alchemist (2010)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts

“Alchemist employs numbers and mathematical symbols of varying sizes-the number six and the delta symbol are particularly prominent-which more actively convey a sense of thinking and calculation. The sculpture was produced at a more modest scale than its precedents, which allows the figure to seem more approachable, and an opening at the foot of the sculpture invites a viewer to step into the open mesh of the work. Plensa considered this sculpture an 'homage to all the researchers and scientists' who have contributed to scientific and mathematical knowledge at MIT.”

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URSULA VON RYDINGSVARD
Luba (2009–10)
Storm King Art Center
Orange County, New York

“Ursula von Rydingsvard’s primary material-used in constructing both Luba and For Paul-is four-by-four lengths of cedar wood, a material that, as the artist has said, “it seems to be I’m able to speak through.” Von Rydingsvard stacks, glues, and cuts into these beams freehand with a circular saw-an intuitive process that the artist has likened to the freedom and creativity that many artists associate with the process of drawing. Luba is the first work on a large scale that von Rydingsvard created in solid cedar. For Paul, made nearly twenty years prior, is composed of an internal honeycomb pattern and sited so that its repeated openings can be seen from a landing above.”

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URSULA VON RYDINGSVARD
Damski Czepek (2006)
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Wakefield, United Kingdom

“Clothing and fabric are recurrent themes in von Rydingsvard’s work, expressed through abstracted forms relating to traditional collars, aprons, and lace. These ideas originate from the physical and tactile side of her memory, where her Polish heritage is vitally important. Damski Czepek translates as ‘lady’s bonnet’, and has a central hood-like form, with snaking ribbons extending out into the landscape. The shape welcomes you in and envelopes you, and echoes some of the eighteenth-century follies across the estate, such as the Shell Grotto.”

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URSULA VON RYDINGSVARD
Three Bowls (1990)
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Kansas City, Missouri

"The roughly hewn, steeply vertical surfaces of Three Bowls bring to mind weathered, rocky cliffs. Von Rydingsvard reinforces this impression by saturating the wood with black graphite, which silvers as it ages. The artist stated, 'I am drawn to that part of the world where manmade walls erode in a way where there is no longer a strict line between that which man has made and that which nature has made.'"

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UPCOMING AT GALERIE LELONG & CO.

URSULA VON RYDINGSVARD
LUBA
October 27 – December 17, 2022
Opening reception: Thursday, October 27, 2022, 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Galerie Lelong & Co., New York is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Ursula von Rydingsvard, presenting new sculptures and drawings by the artist. Celebrated for her monumental sculptures in outdoor and indoor spaces, von Rydingsvard rigorously innovates her visual language in movement and intensity, her practice-that now numbers more than five decades-is suffused with a rich synthesis of form and emotion.

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