Wood

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WOOD Andy Goldsworthy Introduction byTerry Friedman In Wood, Andy Goldsworthy offers a compelling exploration of the nature of wood as he has come to know it. Goldsworthy evokes ideas of growth, of perpetual change, of transformation through works made of leaves, branches, ice, snow, boulders, sand. Much of his art is ephemeral: what has been drawn from nature will sooner or later merge with it again. The book comprises six sections - Earth, Seed, Root, Branch, Leaf and Tree, each prefaced by extracts from the artist's working diaries. Luminous throws of dust in a wheat field convey Goldsworthy's sense of the earth breathing; a snowball poised nearthe base of a huge, protective tree in a snow-bound field suggests the seed; a serpentine line of bracken leaves pinned with thorns and a snaking sand sculpture in a museum of Egyptian antiquities jubilantly echo the root undulating through the ground; two reconstructions of branches in Alaska - one smoothly looping, the other jagged and... Tovább

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WOOD Andy Goldsworthy Introduction byTerry Friedman In Wood, Andy Goldsworthy offers a compelling exploration of the nature of wood as he has come to know it. Goldsworthy evokes ideas of growth, of perpetual change, of transformation through works made of leaves, branches, ice, snow, boulders, sand. Much of his art is ephemeral: what has been drawn from nature will sooner or later merge with it again. The book comprises six sections - Earth, Seed, Root, Branch, Leaf and Tree, each prefaced by extracts from the artist's working diaries. Luminous throws of dust in a wheat field convey Goldsworthy's sense of the earth breathing; a snowball poised nearthe base of a huge, protective tree in a snow-bound field suggests the seed; a serpentine line of bracken leaves pinned with thorns and a snaking sand sculpture in a museum of Egyptian antiquities jubilantly echo the root undulating through the ground; two reconstructions of branches in Alaska - one smoothly looping, the other jagged and angular - reflect the contrasting qualities of wood; a delicate chain of yellow leaves droops into a dark, quiet pool and meanders through fallen, floating leaves before climbing effortlessly back into the boughs of the tree from which it came. Woven through the book are intriguing glimpses of a ballet, Végétal, in which dancers build, dismantle and rebuild versions of Goldsworthy's sculptures on stage - a collaboration which draws fascinating parallels between dance and the process of making sculptures, evoking a sense of the strengths and delicacies found both in nature and in the humán body, and the randomness but alsó the patterns and flows found in the organic world. Wooc/culminates in a striking and peculiarly intimate revelation of the relationship developed between the artist and a particular corner of landscape in his home territory. A vast, ancient oak tree provokes a rich succession of responses as the seasons ebb and flow, somé clearly drawing on ideas first tried out in other places, others arising from the moment. The extraordinarily low temperatures and heavy snowfalls experienced in south-west Scotland in january and early February 1996 have their own witness here. The Capenoch Tree is a triumphant expression of the strong impulse now evident in Goldsworthy's work to allow one work to lead quite directly to the next, for the dismantling of one sculpture to be the first stage in creating a new one. ANDY GOLDSWORTHY, an internationally renowned land artist, was born in Cheshire in 1956. There are regular exhibitions of his work in Britain, Francé, the United States and elsewhere. Thames & Hudson has published many of his books, including Passage, Time, Hand to Earth and Wall. TERRY FRIEDMAN is an architectural histórián who curated the first major retrospective of Goldsworthy's work at the Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture, Leeds City Art Gallery. Vissza